Senior Active Directory Engineer

General Dynamics

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$148,750–$201,250 / yr
Posted
71 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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This role $175k
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This role pays more than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $142,500–$208,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $175k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

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About General Dynamics

General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.

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TL;DR · Senior Active Directory Engineer

As a Senior Active Directory Engineer, you will join the IT Infrastructure and Operations team to design, implement, and manage advanced Active Directory and related identity solutions. You will be responsible for engineering, monitoring, and troubleshooting directory services while providing technical leadership for complex authentication and resource management issues. Your daily work involves developing automation and orchestration scripts to streamline configuration management, enforcing security best practices like hardening and auditing, and maintaining detailed technical documentation. To succeed, you must possess expertise in Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and hybrid identity solutions. You will utilize PowerShell for reporting and automation while managing the lifecycle of identities within a complex enterprise environment. This role focuses on optimizing identity and access management to ensure the security and performance of critical directory services.

What you'll do

  • Engineer, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Active Directory and related directory services.
  • Support and optimize identity and authentication systems for the enterprise environment.
  • Provide technical leadership and escalation support for complex identity and access management issues.
  • Develop and maintain automation and orchestration scripts to streamline maintenance and configuration management.
  • Implement security best practices including hardening, auditing, and compliance for identity management.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and runbooks for incident response.
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to modernize the directory services environment.

What we're looking for

  • Must be a United States citizen.
  • Must currently possess an active Top Secret clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (substitutable with experience).
  • 10+ years of related experience.
  • 8-10 years of hands-on experience engineering and managing Active Directory in large, complex enterprise environments.
  • Proficiency in Active Directory design, Group Policy management, DNS, DHCP, and hybrid identity solutions.
  • Proficiency with PowerShell and other scripting languages for automation and configuration management.
  • US Citizenship.

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