
Senior Manager, IT Active Directory
- Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure that relevant Active Directory and Entra ID Security Controls are adequately developed enforced across platforms and assets to comply with IAM and industry Standards.
- Identify Active Directory and Entra ID weaknesses and develop corrective action plans to mitigate risks with as seamless of a user experience as possible.
- Execute strategic design, implementation, and support processes, as well as proactively develop and implement regular improvements such as implementing passwordless technologies.
- Oversee Active Directory and Entra ID administration, including user account management, authentication, conditional access policies, group policies, trust relationships, domain controllers, and replication.
- Manage AD disaster recovery, AAD Connect, and health monitoring and troubleshoot issues related to AD, Entra ID, replication & syncing, authentication, and login services.
- Ensure scalability and availability of the AD infrastructure to support a growing enterprise environment.
- Participate in and contribute to projects and initiatives working with IAM team members, architectural, development and engineering teams, service owners, and
- business stakeholders to provide enterprise IAM solutions that are scalable, adaptable and aligned to business needs and industry demands.
- Participate in the evaluation of existing and new Active Directory Infrastructure and Security standards and help define future architecture.
- Build strong partnerships through trust and value.
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of relevant information security experience or equivalent.
- In-depth knowledge with Active Directory, Entra ID, Public Key infrastructure and other Identity Management technologies/solutions.
- Expertise in AD security best practices, vulnerability management, and security remediation.
- Successful track record of helping to implement security initiatives and frameworks in a flexible unstructured manner.
- Strong knowledge of scripting: PowerShell, batch file scripting, bash and C#.
- Strong knowledge of networking: Wireshark, LDAP/LDAPS, Sockets, SSL/TLS & Cipher Suites.
- Familiarity with standards publications such as FIPS 140, NIST 800, and frameworks such as the NIST CSF.