Remote Active Directory Entra ID Architect/Engineer

Summary

Join New Era Technology as an experienced Entra ID engineer to supplement the existing team for a 4-month remote opportunity. You will be responsible for conducting project design, reviewing disaster recovery plans, engineering, deploying, and maintaining tools associated with Entra ID, among other tasks.

Requirements

• Senior and experienced AD and Entra ID Engineer (5-7 years) with Large, Global Enterprise Experience
• 5+ years experience in directory services engineering
• Excellent understanding of Entra ID Security
• Tool Development: Experience performing POC testing and driving deployment of Entra ID service-related tools both COTS and self-developed
• Proficient with Microsoft Graph to automate tasks and generate reports with Entra ID
• Customer Focus: Ability to work with application owners to troubleshoot Entra service and integrations issues
• Experience with National Cloud Entra ID tenants
• Documentation: Ability to author, review, and edit technical documents at an Engineering and Operational level
• Presentation and Training: Ability to conduct knowledge transfer sessions to Engineering and Operations
• Making Recommendations: Seek and recommend improvements on existing architecture, provide recommendations to improve IT systems
• Understanding of modern authentication (OIDC, SAML, Kerberos, etc.)
• Understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
• Experience with privileged access management for administering Entra ID
• Experience developing solution and system architecture
• Debugging and troubleshooting experience with Entra ID

Responsibilities

• Conduct high level project design and create project charters
• Review Entra ID disaster recovery plans for gaps and define next steps
• Engineer, deploy, operationalize, maintain, and support tools associated with Entra ID
• Contribute to the engineering and support of Entra ID to include Conditional Access, Authentication strengths including Passwordless & MFA, SSO (SAML, OAUTH & OIDC), Enterprise & Custom Applications, Entra Privileged Identity Management, Multiple Tenants to include National Cloud tenants
• Communicare service enhancements and operational efficiency directions, features, and roadmaps aligned to the roadmap
• Provide technical leadership to others with less knowledge or experience
• Liaise with, train, and support operational teams
• Assist in technology evaluations and guiding proof of concepts
• Participate in solution design discussions

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English
• Collaborative team worker - both in person and virtually using MS Teams or similar
• Excellent analytical skills
• Organizational skills with attention to detail
• Ability to leverage existing documentation
• Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Business outcomes mindset
• Solid balance of strategic thinking with detailed orientation
• Self-starter, ability to take initiative
• Flexibility to accommodate working across different time-zones
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and work experience. Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, Microsoft Certified Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect Expert a plus

Benefits

Not specified