Senior Active Directory Specialist

Senior Active Directory Specialist

Location: Johannesburg

Model: Hybrid

Job Description

Netsurit's mission is to "Support the dreams of the doers." For Netsurit, this means helping employees achieve their personal dreams and ambitions while they free up our customers to meet their broader business goals by taking the burden of day-to-day IT operations off their shoulders. What's your dream? Join the Netsurit Team and enjoy a culture where each employee is encouraged to dream and work on their dreams!

About Netsurit: We are #305 on Inc 5000 America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies! We were also awarded the 2024 Winner for Global MSP501 in the Top 500 Managed Service Providers!

With headquarters in New York, Netsurit is a global leader in IT solutions, providing comprehensive managed services, cybersecurity, AI capabilities, and strategic insights for organizations of all sizes.

• Experience in the Identity space with a background in Active Directory or similar LDAP stores.
• Expert knowledge of authentication with SAML, OAuth, OpenID and Kerberos
• Experience knowledge in providing Federated Identity with solutions such as PING Federate or ADFS
• Prior experience in providing RBAC solutions for clouds solutions (e.g. Microsoft Entra ID)
• Experience scripting and automation abilities including PowerShell.
• Engage and advise stakeholders within the business on Identity and Access Management best practices.
• Define, improve and support Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and Privileged Access Management within the organization.
• Working knowledge of Azure Active Directory Connect synchronization software.
• Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs
• Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies
• Positively contribute to define & implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
• Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
• Uphold our technical principles of self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
• Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design & development that is simple, elegant, and useful.
• consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/services in use and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service.
• Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs.
• Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others.
• Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team.
• Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
• Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.
• Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area.
• Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions.
• Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).

Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance

• Participate in incident management & DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change & release etc.), governance, compliance & regulatory standards and frameworks
• Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Accountability: People

• Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries & lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion.
• Contribute to a high-performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working.
• Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design and deployment of technical solutions.
• Proactively seek & provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team & leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery.
• Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution & proactively seek coaching & mentoring from others.
• Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team.

For 27 years, Netsurit has helped more than 600 businesses navigate the complexities of the modern workplace by ensuring critical applications and infrastructure are always on, secure, and resilient.

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