Active Directory Engineer

Active Directory Engineer

Location: Culver City, CA (candidate needs to be onsite 3 days / week)

Start: ASAP

Duration: 4/30/2026 with possibility of extension

Rate: Market/Competitive

Must have skills:

• Managing Active Directory Operations

• Managing Group Policy with complex Inheritance, Precedence and Enforcement

• Working with the client’s enhanced security On-prem AD domains, monitoring AD replication and resolving any replication issues

• Using PowerShell/Visual Studio Code for troubleshooting and all other scripting needs

• Ability to follow existing SOPs and to create new ones

Required experience:

• Extensive Active Directory experience and Azure exposure

• High-level PowerShell scripting skills, proven ability to read and modify existing complex automation scripts and modules as well as script from scratch

• Previous experience in large, enterprise environments (more than 1,000 servers)

• Experience working in a multi-team environment across multiple geographies

• Ability to follow and enforce strictly defined security standards and processes. Familiarity with Change, Incident, Problem and Service management.

• Natural leadership and mentoring abilities

• Ability to work easily with people of different backgrounds

• Ability to follow existing SOPs and to create new ones

Responsibilities:

• Working with the client’s enhanced security On-prem AD domains

• Working with the client’s Azure AD tenants

• Configuring and managing privileged access (PAM) and access models

• Upgrading and migrating AD physical and virtual servers

• Using PowerShell/Visual Studio Code for troubleshooting and all other scripting needs

• Managing Group Policy with complex Inheritance, Precedence and Enforcement

• Evaluating current environment and clean-up of un-needed AD objects

• Collaborating with IT teams to build out any new servers required