Job Description

Closing Date: 2023-09-13

Job Type: Contract

Job Level: Senior

Experience: Between 3 - 5 Years

EE/AA: No

Summary

A company based in Pretoria is looking for an Active Directory Specialist to join its team. CV to Lea.wilken @ mediro-ict. co. za

As an Active Directory specialist, we offer you an innovative and challenging field of activity in the Authentications Platform product. You will be responsible for the global Active Directory operation and maintenance. You can constantly improve the operational tasks and processes and increase the level of automation to keep the whole Active Directory ready for the future. You work very closely with a global multicultural team and their interface partners, especially in the Digital Identity domain but also with the stakeholders and requestors from the Group IT.

Description

• Use health monitoring to proactively solve issues and ensure service quality.
• Automate operation tasks to improve your efficiency and enable third-party operation teams with a Just-Enough-Administration approach.
• Solve incidents and requests for improvement measures as well as problems to increase system stability and transparency.
• Plan and implement changes, sometimes also outside of the normal business hours.
• Stay up to date about security risks and mitigations to constantly strengthen security.
• Active participation in meetings, calls, and email conversations with the product owner, other feature teams, and stakeholders

Minimum Requirements

Role-specific knowledge:

• Completed degree in Computer Science / Communications Engineering or another Degree program or comparable qualification.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience (also internationally) in the IT sector, some of them with the responsibility of managing large Active Directory environments.

Essential Skills

• A few years of professional experience in the implementation and support of IT architectures
• Expert experience in implementing and administering Microsoft Products, especially Active Directory, KMS, and PKI together with common network services like DNS, WINS, DHCP
• Expert experience in Active Directory architecture and infrastructure
• Advanced experience with the development and implementation of Active Directory security concepts and continuous security improvements
• Hands-on experience with GPO implementation and Active Directory replication
• Basic network knowledge of IPv4, IPv6, DHCP, DNS, Routing, Firewall
• Hands-on experience in standardization and automation of operating tasks with PowerShell or other tools
• Advanced experience in the administration of Windows Server operating systems
• Advanced experience in Disaster Recovery methods and tools for Active Directory

Advantageous Skills

• Experience in working with hybrid cloud environments, ideally Microsoft Azure (e.g., Azure Active Directory)
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Practical knowledge of Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory
• Experience in setting up IT Security, especially with Zero Trust solutions, Microsoft Defender products, and Active Directory security best practices.
• Teamwork and strong internal and external communication skills
• Analytical thinking skills to coordinate, analyze and fix technical faults.
• Self-starter and problem-solver with a strong delivery focus

Mediro ICT Recruitment