Site Reliability Engineer

USDC•Charlotte, NC

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior SRE – Identity & Directory Services for a hybrid position (3 days per week) with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Plano, TX or Pennington, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity. The Senior SRE – Identity & Directory Services is responsible for ensuring the availability, security, resilience, and operational excellence of enterprise identity platforms. This role acts as a subject matter expert for Active Directory, identity tooling, and cloud identity services, working closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to design, operate, and continuously improve identity reliability across on-premise and multi-cloud environments.

Requirements

Deep expertise in Active Directory (AD) architecture, replication, DNS, trusts, GPOs, and security hardening
Experience with AD backup, recovery, forest/domain restoration, and incident response
Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to infrastructure platforms (availability, resilience, observability)
Experience operating Tier 0 or mission-critical systems
Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management (IAM) including authentication, authorization, federation, and privileged access
Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, and GCP identity and security services
Experience identifying and remediating identity-related vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and legacy tools
Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash)
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform or equivalent)

Nice To Haves

Experience with Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) concepts
Familiarity with Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions (e.g., vaulting, session monitoring)
Knowledge of secrets management and key management systems
Experience with Policy as Code and configuration compliance frameworks
Experience integrating identity platforms with CI/CD and platform engineering teams
Strong background in incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
Ability to influence standards and mentor engineers across teams

Responsibilities

Serve as primary SRE and technical SME for Active Directory, identity services, and supporting tooling
Design and operate highly available, resilient AD and identity architectures, including backup, restore, and disaster recovery capabilities
Partner with security and engineering teams to remediate identity vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and legacy/non-permitted technologies
Implement site reliability engineering practices for identity platforms, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, proactive monitoring, and resiliency testing
Lead automation efforts for identity operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
Support multi-cloud identity integrations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, ensuring secure authentication, authorization, and secrets handling
Provide technical leadership during incidents, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation
Establish and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and guardrails for identity platforms
Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on secure identity design and operational reliability

Benefits

Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
Behavioral Health Platform
Medical, Dental, Vision
Health Savings Account
Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
Voluntary Term Life Insurance
401K
Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)