Job Opening at Dimension Data

Job description

Looking for the next step in your career? Enjoy a challenge? Do you have an ambition for innovation? Want to make a difference?

If you join our growing global team, you’ll be working for an industry leader with offices across five continents, in over 50 countries and more than 30 000 employees. You will work with some of the leading world brands across the Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies – who are all relying on Dimension Data to help them use the power of technology to achieve their ambition in this digital era.You’ll be part of a team who’s passionate about making a difference to the way technology shapes how we live and work – whether it’s protecting the rhino, connecting the G20 Summit, or revolutionising cycling, giving you the opportunity to do great things.

You’ll be joining a Global Top Employer, recognised for investing in talent because people are at the heart of our success. You provide the skills, passion and ideas, and we’ll provide the platform to realise your ambitions.Great talent. Great teams. Great work. Great opportunities.

Want to be part of our team?

As a Senior Identity Management Engineer at Dimension Data, your key function will be the successful planning and execution of Dimension Data’s Identity management strategy through the successful planning, deployment operationalization and support of Identity management systems and services. You will use the Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) solution to implement required functionality, policies and processes across a global and complex environment.

What you'll be doing

• Establish an IT system and advise on the installation, configuration and upgrade of servers in line with policy and system requirements.
• Test, install, configure and upgrade new and existing application software to ensure optimal performance.
• Advise on and establish policies and procedures that govern the creation and maintenance of user accounts and perform the necessary access restrictions and verifications in line with security breaches and identity statuses.
• Develop and implement a back-up and recovery policy to enable system restoration and minimal disruption in the event of a hardware, security or administration failure.
• Perform system monitoring and analysis and performance tuning to identify problems or areas of improvement and formulate potential solutions.
• Manage security permissions within the system and within systems to which it is connected by ensuring that network security measures are implemented.
• Conduct research and development to improve IT Services and Business functions.
• Generate system reports and design custom reports to document the systems environment.
• Effectively manage an IT Systems Administration team, their resources, development and overall performance.

What would make you a good fit for this role?

• As an expert in Microsoft Identity Manager and other related technologies (such as Active Directory) take responsibility for ensuring the full user management lifecycle (create, modify, suspend, remove, etc.) is executed reliably and based on defined security policies and principles.
• Run operations of the Identity Management infrastructure and support problem solving for directories, applications and other solutions
• Develop the Identity Management automation processes for support of daily operations and the gathering of directory performance information. As the technical expert, contribute technical ideas according to the experience from daily operation
• Integration of Microsoft Identity Manager into a variety of other platforms – some using out-of-the-box management agents (such as SQL server) and in other cases custom development of management agents.
• Support Identity Management initiatives by taking responsibility for the effective deployment and usage of assigned resources including vendor resource and ensuring they are completed within planned timescales and resource estimates
• Provide performance measures such as operational and technical reports.

Here's what we are looking for in candidates for this job

• MSCE MCITP qualification
• Microsoft Identity Manager training/certification
• ITIL Foundation level training / certification or conceptual understanding
• 5 - 7 years of solid hands-on experience in Identity management systems and services (Active Directory, identity management solutions)
• Detailed knowledge and working experience with: Identity management systems, Forefront Identity Manager ILM, FIM 2010 R2, MIM 2016- Design, Installation, Deployment, Redundancy / high availability, Backup / rollback / restore, Migration of configuration between test and production environments, Upgrading to newer versions, Operational maintenance and management activities, Microsoft Active Directory, Objects and structure, Data elements, Data replication, Group management, PowerShell tools used to update user accounts, FIM / MIM SharePoint administration
• Experienced with: SQL Server 2008 / 2012 / 2014
• Software development (basic proficiency)
• C++ / C# development of management agents
• Web services/ XML / XPath
• Windows 2008 /2012 Server platform
• Virtualization – VMware & Hyper-V
• Active Directory Certification Services
• Microsoft access management technologies
• Active Directory Federation Services
• Web application proxy - Multi-factor authentication - Other user directories and repositories (LDAP, LDS)
• General Networking principles, including LAN and WAN - Knowledge of Office 365 integration and provisioning including Azure AD

Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with Dimension Data. Apply today.

Diversity in Dimension Data

Dimension Data is an equal opportunity employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be unfairly discriminated against on any arbitrary ground including race, colour, sex, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other protected category.