Senior Active Directory Architect | Identity Security & Automation

FinXL; North Sydney Council; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

FinXL Professional Services is seeking a Senior Active Directory Engineer to join our consulting team for a 6 months+ contract with a leading telecommunications client in North Sydney. You will be the hands-on identity anchor ensuring resilience, security, and scalable Windows identity infrastructure.

Responsibilities include designing and deploying AD across multi-domain environments, implementing ASD Essential 8 aligned security, GPO and DNS configurations, and automation via PowerShell.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and managing large Active Directory environments.
• Strong expertise in GPO, ADFS federation, and Windows Server infrastructure.
• Experience with ASD Essential 8 and Zero Trust design principles.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and refine AD solutions across complex environments.
• Drive identity security hardening programs per ASD Essential 8 and Zero Trust.
• Enhance AD services, DNS configurations, and PKI lifecycle management.

Skills

Active Directory design

Multi-domain / multi-forest

AD security hardening

Group Policy

PowerShell scripting

Zero Trust/ ASD Essential 8

AD-integrated DNS

PKI & certificate infrastructure

Leadership in complex environments

Tools

PowerShell

SCOM

PKI

Job description

FinXL Professional Services is seeking a Senior Active Directory Engineer to join our consulting team for a 6 months+ contract with a leading telecommunications client in North Sydney. You will be the hands-on identity anchor ensuring resilience, security, and scalable Windows identity infrastructure.

Responsibilities include designing and deploying AD across multi-domain environments, implementing ASD Essential 8 aligned security, GPO and DNS configurations, and automation via PowerShell.