Active Directory Consultant

7/16 start date, 6 – 12 Month Contract

Location:  Dallas, TX or Atlanta, GA

Client: One of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the Big Four Auditors

Technical Skills

• Minimum 10 years IT engineering experience on multiple platforms / technologies
• Minimum 5 years experience installing and supporting Microsoft Server technologies
• Minimum 5 years experience with Active Directory
  • Trouble shooting database corruption
  • Trouble shooting replication issues
  • Trouble shooting device connection issues
  • Troubleshooting domain controller issues
  • Solid understanding of Group Policies
  • Understanding of Microsoft Certificate Services
  • Understanding of recovery mangement for Active Directory
• Working knowledge of integrating Microsoft Directory services with other technologies:
• Understanding of Microsoft DNS and BIND
• Understanding of Microsoft DHCP with other then Microsoft clients
• Understanding Firewall usage with Microsoft directory services
• Minimum 3 years scripting experience (VBScript or PowerShell preferred
• Education: AAS, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Security, Information Systems, and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.
  
  

Non-Technical skills

• Demonstrated problem-solving abilities showing capability to think and act strategically.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills
• Strong analysis skills along with ability to produce requirement and design documents
• Strong Leadership skills
• Ability to work well with Customers
• Proven ability to work well in cross- organizational Teams
• Ability to provide quality and on-time delivery
• Ability to adapt to change

Job Responsibility

• Provide support for Active Directory in development and production environments
• Provide support documentation for Active Directory and supporting services
• Mentor and develop members on Active Directory and Microsoft infrastructure
• Support authentication and authorization services provided for COTS applications as well as internally developed applications
• Work with application teams to integrate applications with security infrastructure
• Support on-call pager rotation
• Work with application owners to resolve security vulnerabilities, providing technical instruction on vulnerability resolution.

Environment

• Work within the Technology Department Information Security Services Team, consisting of some two dozen engineers, analysts, and project management professionals.
• Individual contributor role focused primarily on threat and vulnerability management activities