Active Directory & Azure Identity Security Engineer

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC in Charlotte, NC is seeking an Active Directory Security (AD Sec) Engineer to advance and secure its enterprise authentication and directory services infrastructure. The role covers end-to-end AD security operations and robust access control for a diverse user base.

You will engineer and support secure AD and Azure AD environments, manage privileged identities, lead hardening efforts, and design policies to prevent unauthorized access, while driving incident

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in information security, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience implementing AD security and PAM.
• Familiarity with authentication protocols: Kerberos, NTLM, LDAP, OAuth, SAML.
• Hands-on security hardening, access reviews, and incident response for directory attacks.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and respond to security events within Active Directory and Azure AD.
• Engineer improvements to directory hardening, object protection, and delegation controls.
• Manage identity lifecycle (onboarding, changes, offboarding) for privileged and sensitive accounts.
• Automate routine security tasks, access reviews, and reporting via scripts and orchestration tools.
• Partner with internal teams on security integration projects, GPO enforcement, and multifactor authentication implementation.
• Document technical standards, configurations, and remediation processes.

Skills

Active Directory security

Azure Active Directory

Identity governance

Privileged access management

Authentication protocols

PowerShell scripting

Security hardening

Education

Bachelor's degree in information security / Computer Science or related field

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC in Charlotte, NC is seeking an Active Directory Security (AD Sec) Engineer to advance and secure its enterprise authentication and directory services infrastructure. The role covers end-to-end AD security operations and robust access control for a diverse user base.

You will engineer and support secure AD and Azure AD environments, manage privileged identities, lead hardening efforts, and design policies to prevent unauthorized access, while driving incident