Johannesburg North: Senior Active Directory Specialist (Architect) posted by Network Contracting
Posted on 2025-08-25 00:00:00
| Employer | Network Contracting |
|---|---|
| Category | Architect |
| Location | Gauteng / Johannesburg North |
Job Summary
The Senior Active Directory Specialist is responsible for the Global design of the OT Active Directory (AD) environment for a 6 months contract period, ensuring optimal performance, security, and availability. This role plays a critical part in designing appropriate identity and access, enforcing security best practices, and supporting enterprise-wide authentication and directory services.
Key Responsibilities:
Active Directory Administration
- Design the AD infrastructure, including domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy
- Suggest processes to Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AD to ensure stability and performance
Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Develop IAM policies, procedures, and controls
- Design mechanisms and suggest procedures for user provisioning, de-provisioning, and access control in alignment with security policies (Design)
Security & Compliance
- Design AD security best practices, inline with current practices including MFA, security baselines, and privileged access management
- Suggest processes to conduct security audits, patching, and vulnerability assessments.
Disaster Recovery & Backup
- Design AD disaster recovery and business continuity plans
- Design backup and recovery tests to ensure data integrity and availability
Scripting & Automation
- Suggest PowerShell scripts to automate AD tasks such as account management and reporting
- Suggest automated monitoring and alerting solutions for AD performance and security
Collaboration & Support
- Work with IT teams to plan integration of AD with cloud services (e.g., Azure AD, Office 365)
- Provide expert-level support for AD-related incidents and service requests
Documentation & Reporting
- Maintain detailed documentation of AD architecture, policies, and procedures
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience managing and administering Active Directory in enterprise environments
- Expertise in Windows Server, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and PowerShell scripting
- Experience with Azure AD, ADFS, and identity federation
- Strong understanding of AD security hardening, MFA, PKI, and LDAP
- Familiarity with IAM tools such as Okta, CyberArk, or similar
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills
Preferred Certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Server Infrastructure (Must Have)
- Microsoft Certified: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (Must Have)
- Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
- CompTIA Security+ or CISSP (Advantageous)
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or Azure Administrator Associate
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly *****@*****.co.za . For more finance jobs, please visit www.********.co.za
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