Active Directory Cloud Engineer

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Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

The Active Directory Engineer will be responsible for managing and supporting the Active Directory environment, Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) services and other relevant cloud infrastructure by taking ownership of projects, developing and maintaining technical documents and operational procedures and implementing opportunities to mature self-service and automation capabilities.

You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide technical expertise, coaching and support for cloud-related initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility includes the management of Active Directory (all related core services), ADFS and Certificate Management, Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) and other cloud services
• Develop and maintain technical documents, operational procedures, and security standards.
• Highlight and implement opportunities to mature self-service and automation capabilities across the environment enable scale and speed. Removal of any manual processes within the Active Directory and cloud environments
• Take ownership of projects and enhancements, driving delivery with the broader Technology team
• Continuous Improvement – Cost Optimisation, Performance Improvement, Capacity management
• Manage the configuration and life cycle of environments, ensuring that the systems remain complaint and adhere to our security policies and industry security standards
• Ensure that platform performance is in line with requirements and have sufficient monitoring and capacity to cater for growth and future requirements
• Ensure environments are highly available, resilient (DR tests), and backed up in line with business RPO’s and RTO’s.
• Maintain hardware and software standards, asset inventories where required
• Adhere to change management processes ensuring all changes are correctly captured, understood, and communicated for any changes planned for the environment
• Act as a technical escalation point to the Support Teams as and when required
• Maintain platform service ticket queues, ensuring that SLAs are met in accordance with the agreed incident, service, and problem management processes

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology; Information Systems etc
• Microsoft Active Directory Certification / AWS Certification
• 5+ years' experience in a similar role

Skills Required

• Active Directory Core Infrastructure
• Authentication protocols (Kerberos/NTLM/LDAP)
• Sites and Replication
• Certificate Services
• Federation Services
• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google
• Problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Automation
• Microsoft Windows Server & Virtualization
• Networking (Eg. DNS, DHCP)
• Agile/SAFe
• Scripting (Eg. Powershell, Python, Terraform)
• DevOps Tooling and Infrastructure as Code (Eg. Azure DevOps, Github, Terraform, CloudFormation)

Skills

Computer Literacy, Database Administration, Database Management Systems (DBMS), Database Queries, Data Controls, Document Management, Executing Plans, Expertise Management System, Knowledge Management, Metadata Management, Object-Oriented Database Management System (OODBMS), Office Systems, Oral Communications, Policies & Procedures, Test Case Management

Competencies

Collaborates

Communicates Effectively

Decision Quality

Ensures Accountability

Manages Complexity

Optimizes Work Processes

Plans and Aligns

Tech Savvy

Education

Diploma (Dip): Information Technology (Required)

Closing Date

25 July 2026 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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