Active Directory & Azure AD Specialist at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• The role will also entail taking ownership of projects, developing and maintaining technical documents and operational procedures and implementing opportunities to mature self-serviceable of infrastructure and automation capabilities. The successful incumbent must possess a suitable tertiary qualification with 10 years’ experience working in the IT sector, 8 years’ Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Certificate Management and 3 years’ proficiency in Azure Active Directory and associated MS Office Cloud services

Primary responsibility is to define and own all aspects of Active Directory including the strategy, architecture and standards of both on-premises and cloud base environments

• Responsibility includes the management of Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, ADFS and Certificate Management
• Develop and maintain technical documents, operational procedures, and security standards.
• Highlight and implement opportunities to mature self-serviceable of infrastructure and automation capabilities across the environment
• Take ownership of projects and enhancements, driving delivery with the broader EUC CORE Technology team
• Manage the configuration and life cycle of environments, ensuring that the systems remain complaint and adhere to our security policies and industry security standards
• Ensure that platform performance is in line with requirements and have sufficient monitoring and capacity to cater for growth and future requirements
• Ensure environments are highly available, resilient, and backed up in line with business RPO’s and RTO’s
• Maintain hardware and software standards, asset inventories where required
• Adhere to change management processes ensuring all changes are correctly captured, understood, and communicated for any changes planned for the environment
• Act as a technical escalation point to the Support Teams as and when required
• Maintain platform service ticket queues, ensuring that SLAs are met in accordance with the agreed incident, service, and problem management processes
• Ensure Windows time synchronization and Manage DFS, share creation and administration
• Provide DHCP Services and Manage, create and configure the DHCP scope
• DNS Management: Perform DNS forwarders and root hints, aging and scavenging, record creation and modification, and also perform DNS name resolution
• Perform AD Integrated DNS In-Scope creation and modification
• Manage and maintain manual DNS entries

Required Skills and Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification / Microsoft AD Certification / AWS Certification
• 10 Years of experience working in the IT industry
• 8 Years of experience with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Certificate Management and Windows Server
• 3 Years' experience of:
• Azure Active Directory and associated MS Office Cloud services
• Managing AD Group Policies and CIS/NIST Security controls
• Automation: PowerShell scripting
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure
• Managing backup and storage environments both on-premises and cloud environments
• Experience in virtualization (Hyperconverged platforms)
• Experience in managing Disaster Recover planning
• Experience in KEMP Load Balancers will be advantageous
• Active Directory and Azure AD Technologies
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server, with some experience on Linux based OS being an advantage
• Hypervisor: Hyper-V Technology
• Backup Technology experience and understanding
• Storage: Pure or any flash-based storage
• Cloud Technologies: Azure, M365 and AWS
• Monitoring: SCOM Operations
• Scripting: PowerShell, JSON, YAML
• Networking: Good understanding of Networking concepts

Closing Date

08 April 2023