Active Directory Engineer/Specialist

Reed Technology; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 92,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Reed Technology is seeking an Active Directory Engineer/Specialist for a 6-month onsite contract in Newcastle upon Tyne. You will lead domain migration activities, design high/low level plans, and drive delivery alongside the project team.

The role requires hands-on AD DS, Entra, DNS/DHCP, and GPO management, with a focus on migrating users, groups, servers, and GPOs while decommissioning legacy domains.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Active Directory Engineer/Specialist.
• Hands-on experience with domain migrations and legacy domain decommissioning.
• Able to work fully onsite in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Responsibilities

• Produce and own HLD and LLD for migration projects.
• Input into delivery planning and schedule activities.
• Perform domain migrations and decommission legacy domains.
• Manage AD DS, Entra, DNS, DHCP, and certificate services during migration.

Skills

Active Directory

AD DS

Domain Migrations

GPO

DNS

DHCP

Entra

Migration Planning

Job description

Active Directory Engineer/Specialist

6 Month Contract(with potential for extension)

Newcastle upon Tyne - Fully Onsite

£500-£565 Per Day Umbrella(INSIDE IR35)

One of my well respected clients' is currently looking for an experienced Active Directory Engineer/Specialist, to join their team on a 6 month contract. This will be to work on an exciting domain migration programme of work.

This role will be Monday-Friday, fully onsite in Newcastle.

Key Skills and Responsibilities

You will be responsible for producing and owning HLD, LLD, inputting into the delivery planning, hands on experience of performing domain migrations and decommission Legacy domains.

The project scope includes but not limited to AD DS, Entra, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Sites and Services, Certificate services, hosted SQL databases, migration validation and Legacy-domain decommissioning.

Migration includes users, groups, service accounts, Servers, OUs, GPOs, DNS zones, DHCP scopes and AD topology.

The Next Steps

This is an exciting project to be involved in, with a strong potential for extension after the initial 6 months.