Specialist - Technology Services
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.
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