Workforce Identities Engineering - Active Directory Engineer - Associate - London

Goldman Sachs; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global investment firm is seeking an experienced Active Directory Engineer in London to join their Workforce Identities Engineering team. The role involves designing and optimizing Active Directory environments, coordinating various infrastructure projects, and collaborating with international teams. Ideal candidates will have a strong technical foundation, especially in PowerShell, and experience in managing complex systems. This position offers competitive compensation and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of four years in managing Active Directory infrastructure.
• Experience implementing continuity plans and hardening strategies.
• Ability to work independently on problem solving and investigation.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy solutions to ensure security of Active Directory platforms.
• Coordinate with infrastructure teams on projects.
• Manage systems lifecycle and evaluate solutions for optimizations.

Skills

Strong technical knowledge of Active Directory environments

Experience in PowerShell

Understanding of LDAP, Kerberos, and IPSec

Good verbal and written communication skills

Tools

PowerShell

Microsoft Entra ID

Active Directory Certificate Services

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Posted:

13.08.2025

Expiry Date:

27.09.2025

Job Description:

Impact:

The Workforce Identities Engineering team within the Identity and Access Management function of Core Engineering is looking for an experienced Active Directory systems engineer. This position will be working with a global team responsible for the architecture, design, and development of systems supporting a combination of on-premises and cloud-hosted Active Directory environments for Goldman Sachs.

The Active Directory infrastructure supports wide and varied services that require high availability and performance in a secure environment. This position will help design, engineer, and deploy solutions to help ensure the security and resiliency of the Active Directory platforms within Goldman Sachs.

Responsibilities will also include coordinating with various technology infrastructure teams for infrastructure projects, managing systems lifecycle, and evaluating existing solutions for optimizations or enhancements. The position will also be engaged in vendor management, industry analysis, product benchmarking, and contributing to the technical understanding and promotion of new and existing standards, solutions, and tools.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of four years in management of an Active Directory infrastructure, as well as projects in the Single Sign-On and Federated Identity space in medium to large enterprise environments.

How will you fulfill your potential:

• Work with a global team of highly motivated platform engineers and software developers delivering solutions specializing in a range of technologies with a remit to define and build integrated architectures for secure, scalable infrastructure services serving a diverse set of internal and external use cases
• Collaborate with Active Directory engineers across Goldman Sachs and Microsoft to optimize and enhance the security and runtime operations of different on-premises and cloud-hosted Active Directory instances within Goldman Sachs
• Engage with Active Directory consumers to collaborate on efficient and secure integration approaches for their application requirements
• Leverage PowerShell to automate tasks for Active Directory management to increase efficiency of the team and detect abnormal behavior of the systems

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong technical knowledge of complex Active Directory environments in medium to large enterprises
• Experience implementing business continuity plans, recovery strategies, and hardening strategies for Active Directory Domain Services environments across both on-premises and cloud-hosted scenarios
• Implementing controls to ensure appropriate security, performance, scalability, and monitoring guidelines are achieved for the Active Directory instances
• Experience integrating solutions with an Active Directory Domain Services environment, including scenarios such as Exchange, Entra ID, Office 365 Hosted solutions, Active Directory Certificate Services, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Systems Center Operations Manager
• Familiarity with LDAP, Kerberos, and IPSec protocols
• Experience in designing, developing, and testing software in PowerShell
• Understanding of systems development lifecycle best practices
• Must be able to sustain a high rate of workflow and work on multiple projects
• The person will need good verbal and written communication skills. He/she needs to show past experience in utilizing various influencing skills and be able to collaborate, communicate and deliver in a global environment
• Ability to present to internal client audiences or professional peers, and ability to work independently on problem solving and investigation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience implementing and managing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (ADLDS) instances.
• Familiarity with PowerShell automated testing frameworks such as Pester
• Familiarity with leveraging Microsoft Entra ID cloud-based security, management, and monitoring solutions

About Goldman Sachs: At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital, and ideas to help our clients, shareholders, and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from training and development to benefits, wellness, and personal finance offerings.