Senior Active Directory Engineer - Active Top Secret required

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.

$148K — $201K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 10+ years of related experience in Active Directory engineering and management
  • Strong proficiency in Active Directory design, administration, and troubleshooting
  • Experience with Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and Windows infrastructure services
  • Understanding of identity lifecycle management and access control methodologies

Responsibilities

  • Engineer, manage, and monitor Active Directory and directory services
  • Support and optimize identity and authentication systems
  • Provide technical leadership for complex identity and access issues
  • Resolve critical technical incidents autonomously
  • Develop automation for system maintenance and monitoring
  • Implement security best practices for identity and access management
  • Create technical documentation and standard operating procedures

Benefits

  • Variety of medical plan options including Health Savings Accounts
  • Dental and vision plan options
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Flexible work weeks and paid time off plans
  • Short and long-term disability benefits and life insurance
  • Regular review of benefits package to maintain competitiveness
Full Job Description
Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory (AD), Systems Design, Systems Engineering
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

Senior Active Directory Engineer

As a Senior Active Directory Engineer, the work you'll do at GDIT will be directly impactful to the customer's mission. You will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing advanced Active Directory and related identity solutions to optimize the customer's enterprise environment.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT
  • Engineer, manage, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and update Active Directory and related directory services.
  • Support and optimize identity and authentication systems.
  • Provide technical leadership and escalation support for complex identity, access, authentication, and centralized resource management issues.
  • Autonomously handle and resolve critical technical incidents, ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of Active Directory and directory services.
  • Develop and maintain automation and orchestration to streamline maintenance, configuration management, and monitoring of directory services systems.
  • Implement and enforce security best practices for identity and access management, including hardening, auditing, and compliance with applicable standards.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and runbooks for directory services operations and incident response.
  • Evaluate, test, and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance and modernize the directory services and identity environment.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and change management processes to support mission needs as required.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Senior Active Directory Engineer should have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
    • Additional relevant experience may be substituted for formal education.
  • Minimum of 8-10 years of hands-on experience engineering and managing Active Directory in large, complex enterprise environments.
  • Demonstrated proficiency with:
    • Active Directory design, administration, and troubleshooting
    • Group Policy design and management
    • DNS, DHCP, and related Windows infrastructure services
    • Hybrid identity solutions
    • Authentication and authorization protocols
  • Strong understanding of system security, identity lifecycle management, and access control methodologies.
  • Proficiency with PowerShell and other scripting languages for automation, reporting, and configuration management.
  • Relevant certifications strongly desired, such as:
    • Microsoft: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator, Azure Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, MCSE (or successor)
    • Cloud: Azure or AWS Administrator/Security certifications


The likely salary range for this position is $148,750 - $201,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Hybrid

Work Location:
USA DC Washington

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

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