Job Description

Azure Active Directory Engineer

Total experience – 6-10 years

Relevant experience - 3-7 years

Location preferences - Chennai and Pune

Azure Active Directory Engineer is a senior level position responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, acquisition and deployment of hardware, software, and network infrastructure in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead efforts to ensure quality standards are being met within existing and planned framework.
Skills
- Active Directory Experience - Advanced understanding of, and experience with:
- Group Policies
- LDAP Connectivity
- Kerberos / NTLM Authentication
- PKI Integration with AD
- Modern AD Security Concepts
- AD Port and Protocol Knowledge
- Non-Windows Applications Connecting to AD
General IT Skills
- Risk and Security Awareness
- Experience with communications through Firewalls
- Good Communication Skills
- Technical Documentation Skills and experience
- Network Capture Review Experience

Responsibilities:
• Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap.
• Ensure that all integration of functions meet business goals.
• Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements.
• Recommend product customization for system integration.
• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes.
• Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products, and services.
• Advise or mentor junior team members.
• Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services.
Qualifications:
• 6-10 years of relevant experience in an Engineering role.
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience and Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience working in a large complex and/or global environment.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities, and related reporting to identify best practices.
• Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills.
• Cyber security experience is desirable.
• Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams.
• Proven track record of operational process change and improvement.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.
• Fluent English knowledge
Technical Skills required:
• Azure Active Directory Connect
• Pass-Thru Authentication (PTA)/Password hash Sync (PHS)
• Azure Active Directory
• Azure AD Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
• Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Microsoft Authenticator App
• Conditional Access Policies and/or Intune (Microsoft Endpoint Management)
• Intune RBAC, Intune Connector
• Azure AD Join/Hybrid Azure AD Joined
• Intune Policies and/or Azure subscriptions
• Azure Blueprints
• Azure Policies
• Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates)/Bicep/Terraform
Certifications (preferred):
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Expert
• Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

Primary Tasks
- Project Efforts
- Work with other Engineering and Operations teams to complete large projects
- Represent AD Engineering in cross-organizational efforts
- Manage full Engineering lifecycle for AD Enhancement efforts
- Review application interactivity with Active Directory in a lab context prior to release to UAT and Production environments
- Assist application managers with establishing AD connectivity
- Ensure applications do not negatively impact AD functionality
- Lab Management
- Assist with managing Lab Server fleet to required standards
- Perform post-patching checkouts to ensure no negative impacts prior to promotion to UAT
- Respond to user issues with logons, passwords, lockouts, etc
- Respond to user requests for Groups, OUs, Users, etc

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