Active Directory Migration Engineer — Hybrid/Remote

XMS Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

XMS Solutions is seeking an Active Directory Server Migration Engineer in Washington, DC to lead complex migrations from strategy through execution. You will assess environments, design secure migration plans, and guide directory and server transitions with minimal disruption, leveraging Quest Migration Manager or similar tools.

You will work with infrastructure, security, application, and operations teams to ensure stability, security, and scalability while delivering reliable outcomes for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of enterprise infrastructure or related field experience.
• Advanced Windows Server and Active Directory expertise (domains, forests, trusts, GPO, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, authentication).
• 3+ years hands-on enterprise AD migrations experience.
• Experience with Quest Migration Manager or similar tool.

Responsibilities

• Lead AD domain and forest migrations, including consolidation and cross-domain transitions.
• Assess environments, map trusts, DNS, GPOs, applications, and dependencies.
• Migrate AD objects using Quest Migration Manager or equivalent.
• Plan migration sequencing, coexistence, trust relationships, and authentication continuity.
• Execute physical and virtual Windows Server migrations, plan capacity and compatibility.
• Migrate file shares, permissions, service accounts, and configurations; verify access.
• Develop runbooks, pilot plans, cutover schedules, validation checklists, and rollback procedures.
• Lead pilot migrations and production cutovers with cross-functional teams to minimize downtime.
• Validate directory health, DNS, authentication, and application connectivity post-migration.
• Document target configurations and retire legacy domains/servers after acceptance.

Skills

Active Directory

Enterprise migration

Cross-functional collab

Technical documentation

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Quest Migration Manager

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Linux servers

Job description

XMS Solutions is seeking an Active Directory Server Migration Engineer in Washington, DC to lead complex migrations from strategy through execution. You will assess environments, design secure migration plans, and guide directory and server transitions with minimal disruption, leveraging Quest Migration Manager or similar tools.

You will work with infrastructure, security, application, and operations teams to ensure stability, security, and scalability while delivering reliable outcomes for