Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior SRE - Identity & Directory Services - Hybrid for a 12+ month contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Plano, TX and Pennington, NJ. The Senior SRE - Identity & Directory Services is responsible for ensuring the availability, security, resilience, and operational excellence of enterprise identity platforms. This role acts as a subject matter expert (SME) for Active Directory, identity tooling, and cloud identity services, working closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to design, operate, and continuously improve identity reliability. This is a senior, hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise, strong engineering discipline, and the ability to influence platform standards and remediation strategies at scale. The role has a hybrid schedule requirement of a minimum of 3 days per week.
Responsibilities: - Serve as primary SRE and technical SME for Active Directory, identity services, and supporting tooling
- Design and operate highly available, resilient AD and identity architectures, including backup, restore, and disaster recovery capabilities
- Partner with security and engineering teams to remediate identity vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and legacy/non-permitted technologies
- Implement site reliability engineering practices for identity platforms, including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, proactive monitoring and alerting, and chaos/resiliency testing
- Lead automation efforts for identity operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
- Support multi-cloud identity integrations across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform, ensuring secure authentication, authorization, and secrets handling
- Provide technical leadership during incidents, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and guardrails for identity platforms
- Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on secure identity design and operational reliability
Requirements: - Deep expertise in Active Directory (AD) architecture, replication, DNS, trusts, GPOs, and security hardening
- Experience with AD backup, recovery, forest/domain restoration, and incident response
- Experience applying SRE principles to infrastructure platforms (availability, resilience, observability) and operating Tier 0 or mission-critical systems
- Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management (IAM) including authentication, authorization, federation, and privileged access
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform identity and security services
- Experience identifying and remediating identity-related vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and legacy tools
- Scripting and automation experience (PowerShell, Python, Bash)
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform or equivalent)
Desired skills: - Experience with Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) concepts
- Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions (e.g., vaulting, session monitoring)
- Secrets management and key management systems
- Policy as Code and configuration compliance frameworks
- Experience integrating identity platforms with CI/CD and platform engineering teams
- Strong background in incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
- Ability to influence standards and mentor engineers across teams
Pay range: $58.31 - $66.31 per hour
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position. If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply! Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10: - Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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