Senior Active Directory Specialist

Netsurit


Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
About The Job Senior Active Directory Specialist

Senior Active Directory Specialist

Location: Johannesburg

Model: Hybrid

Job Description

  • 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.
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