AD Architect (Active Directory Domain Services)

Location: Richardson, TX (Hybrid)

Mode: Contract

Description:

• Strong Understanding of AD Architecture: In-depth knowledge of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), domain controllers, forests, trees, sites, and replication mechanisms.
• Group Policy Management: Expertise in creating, managing, and troubleshooting Group Policies (GPOs) to enforce security settings and configurations across the domain.
• Discovery, analysis, and recommendations for management of user objects, including privileged accounts, service accounts, bot objects, and contact objects
• Discovery, analysis, and recommendations for management of group objects, including the reduction of nested groups, identifying group ownership, populating group descriptions, and stale groups
• Discovery, analysis, and recommendations of distribution lists and dynamic groups
• Define governance policies around group creation and management, development of group naming conventions, and disabled account removal
• Discovery, analysis, and recommendations of computer objects
• Develop process to identify group ownership and other pertinent details
• Develop and execute scripts to perform user and group object cleanup
• Security Practices: Familiarity with AD security best practices, including configuring and managing Organizational Units (OUs), permissions, delegation, and auditing.
• PowerShell Scripting: Proficiency in PowerShell for automating AD tasks, managing users and computers, and performing bulk changes.
• Troubleshooting Skills: Ability to diagnose and resolve typical AD issues, such as replication failures, authentication problems, and trust issues.