Active Directory & Azure AD Specialist at Old Mutual

Job Description

• The role will also entail taking ownership of projects, developing and maintaining technical documents and operational procedures and implementing opportunities to mature self-serviceable of infrastructure and automation capabilities. The successful incumbent must possess a suitable tertiary qualification with 10 years’ experience working in the IT sector, 8 years’ Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Certificate Management and 3 years’ proficiency in Azure Active Directory and associated MS Office Cloud services
• Primary responsibility is to define and own all aspects of Active Directory including the strategy, architecture and standards of both on-premises and cloud base environments
• Responsibility includes the management of Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, ADFS and Certificate Management
• Develop and maintain technical documents, operational procedures, and security standards.
• Highlight and implement opportunities to mature self-serviceable of infrastructure and automation capabilities across the environment
• Take ownership of projects and enhancements, driving delivery with the broader EUC CORE Technology team
• Manage the configuration and life cycle of environments, ensuring that the systems remain complaint and adhere to our security policies and industry security standards
• Ensure that platform performance is in line with requirements and have sufficient monitoring and capacity to cater for growth and future requirements
• Ensure environments are highly available, resilient, and backed up in line with business RPO’s and RTO’s
• Maintain hardware and software standards, asset inventories where required
• Adhere to change management processes ensuring all changes are correctly captured, understood, and communicated for any changes planned for the environment
• Act as a technical escalation point to the Support Teams as and when required
• Maintain platform service ticket queues, ensuring that SLAs are met in accordance with the agreed incident, service, and problem management processes
• Ensure Windows time synchronization and Manage DFS, share creation and administration
• Provide DHCP Services and Manage, create and configure the DHCP scope
• DNS Management: Perform DNS forwarders and root hints, aging and scavenging, record creation and modification, and also perform DNS name resolution
• Perform AD Integrated DNS In-Scope creation and modification
• Manage and maintain manual DNS entries

Required Skills and Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification / Microsoft AD Certification / AWS Certification
• 10 Years of experience working in the IT industry
• 8 Years of experience with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Certificate Management and Windows Server
• 3 Years' experience of:
• Azure Active Directory and associated MS Office Cloud services
• Managing AD Group Policies and CIS/NIST Security controls
• Automation: PowerShell scripting
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure
• Managing backup and storage environments both on-premises and cloud environments
• Experience in virtualization (Hyperconverged platforms)
• Experience in managing Disaster Recover planning
• Experience in KEMP Load Balancers will be advantageous
• Active Directory and Azure AD Technologies
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server, with some experience on Linux based OS being an advantage
• Hypervisor: Hyper-V Technology
• Backup Technology experience and understanding
• Storage: Pure or any flash-based storage
• Cloud Technologies: Azure, M365 and AWS
• Monitoring: SCOM Operations
• Scripting: PowerShell, JSON, YAML
• Networking: Good understanding of Networking concepts

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Closing Date

• 22 October 2022