Senior Active Directory Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology • Washington, DC

2d • $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. 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.

Requirements

• Must be able/willing to obtain a Top Secret and SCI eligible clearance.
• 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.

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

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
• Vision plan
• 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
• 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 insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

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