Senior Active Directory Engineer - Active Top Secret required

General Dynamics Information Technology • Washington, DC

4d • $148,750 - $201,250 • Hybrid

About The Position

Join GDIT as a Senior Active Directory Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. 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.

Requirements

• 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
• Demonstrated proficiency with: Group Policy design and management
• Demonstrated proficiency with: DNS, DHCP, and related Windows infrastructure services
• Demonstrated proficiency with: Hybrid identity solutions
• Demonstrated proficiency with: 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.
• US Citizenship Required: Yes
• Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret

Nice To Haves

• Relevant certifications strongly desired, such as: Microsoft: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator, Azure Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, MCSE (or successor)
• Relevant certifications strongly desired, such as: Cloud: Azure or AWS Administrator/Security certifications
• Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• dental plan options
• a vision plan
• 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.
• full flex work weeks where possible
• a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior