---

---

Location

Noida | India

---

Job description

The DS Engineer must be an adaptable, pragmatic, and positive professional, who is comfortable in delivering clear and concise information at technical level. We are seeking a dynamic individual for this role that will execute MetLife s transformation in digital and mobile space and accelerate customer centricity initiatives.

• Facilitate Active Directory administrative tasks, integration needs, and business requirements.
• Creation, migration, consolidation, and retirement of Domain Controllers into sites and domains.
• Collaborate with Information Security Division to mitigate vulnerabilities, define and implement security policies, and support internal PKI/certificate management process.
• Configuring Active Directory Site and Services according to Microsoft and industry best practices.
• Test and verify AD Domain Controllers disaster recovery procedures.
• Execute monitoring strategies for monitoring and reporting health of Active Directory components.
• Be available to all information technology groups of a large enterprise, both within IT operations as well as in other IT divisions to help and facilitate the integration or support of the Active Directory and Microsoft Enterprise Services.
• Continually monitor environment to ensure best practices and Federal guidelines are being followed.
• Generate usage reports of components of AD like LDAP, NTLM, Kerberos, etc.
• Provide point in time audit reports of different types of AD objects.
• Create and maintain support documentation, asset inventory, and tracking of the enterprise infrastructure.
• Work closely with desktop and server administrators to define and execute appropriate Group Policy, scripting, related to directory hierarchy, objects, and structure.

Job Responsibilities

• Build and deploy Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers, consolidate Sites and Domains, and monitor the health of existing systems
• Provide ongoing Level 1 and Level 2 support for MetLife s directory services, which includes: upgrades, tuning, monitoring, problem resolution and identification of root cause.
• Establish collaborative working relationships with the businesses, functions, and regions to ensure that MetLife s directory services align with MetLife s security architecture and business strategy.
• Work with global partners to migrate end users from mergers & acquisitions into MetLife s directories.
• Responsible for day-to-day administration duties including Windows Active Directory object maintenance, troubleshooting and repair tasks on Active Directory, Windows Server 2019, Domain Controllers, DNS, user authentication and other operational systems as needed.
• Implement, monitor, and maintain Active Directory DC design, Schema, OU design, AD replication topology, and DC backup/restore procedures
• Develop and maintain backup and recovery practices and procedures
• Perform Active Directory Services administration and management to include design, cleanup and routine maintenance and configuration
• Handle requests via thru Incident/Problem Management tool
• Ability to coordinate and perform Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), SAML, web Single Sign-on (SSO), OAuth and related authentication technologies
• Break/Fix response for all supported services.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Education

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

Experience

• 5+ years of Domain Controller deployment, promotion, and demotion experience
• 5+ years of Active Directory design migration or consolidation experience
• 5+ years of scripting skills in PowerShell or other modern scripting language
• 3+ years of experience with Azure
• 2+ years of Linux Operating system experience
• Advanced Microsoft certification with 5+ years experience as a Windows 2012/2016/2019 and Active Directory services administrator.
• Hands-on experience in supporting Microsoft Windows 2012/2016/2019 core systems, Active Directory, ADFS, MS PKI, DFS, and GPO validation and design.
• Deep understanding of Group policy management, troubleshooting and management.
• Understanding of the inner working of Active Directory and its components.
• Working experience of lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• Good understanding of Active Directory Federation Services.
• Experience with Azure Cloud Services.

Knowledge and skills (general and technical)

• Prior experience with other directory technologies like Ping, OUD, Open DJ
• 5+ years engineering experience working in an enterprise infrastructure with a minimum of 20,000 end users
• Experience in developing and supporting system management automation tools to deploy, configure and monitor servers and services.
• Thorough understanding of monitoring best practices for Active Directory and related services.
• Ability to translate technical issues into understandable business language for end users and other technical support personnel.
• Must possess excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills.

Other Requirements (licenses, certifications, specialized training - if required)

• Power Shell, VB Script is a plus.
• ITIL, MCP, MCSE, MCSA, Azure Certification will be preferred.

---

Job tags

---

---

Salary