Lead Microsoft Identity Engineer — AD & Entra Hybrid Expert

Insight Enterprises; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Enterprises in Austin, TX seeks a Lead Microsoft Identity Engineer to strengthen enterprise identity services across AD, Entra ID, and related platforms. You will lead AD migrations, design and troubleshoot directory services, and drive modernization in hybrid environments.

The role requires 7+ years of engineering experience with AD, authentication protocols, and cloud identity. Expect onsite work in Austin with remote Fridays, and a quarterly bonus structure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience administering and engineering enterprise Microsoft Active Directory environments.
• Experience with Active Directory design, implementation, migration, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on expertise with authentication technologies and hybrid identity.
• Cloud familiarity (Azure/AWS/GCP) and modern identity security practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead Active Directory migration projects, including cross-forest migrations.
• Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot Microsoft Active Directory environments.
• Manage Group Policy for servers and endpoints.
• Support authentication technologies (ADFS, Kerberos, LDAP, token-based).
• Migrate users, groups, computers, and directory objects between domains and forests.
• Perform health assessments, remediation, and optimization of AD; manage Windows Server upgrades.

Skills

Migration expertise

Troubleshooting

Hybrid identity

Security best practices

Cross-forest migrations

Tools

Active Directory

Group Policy

DNS

DHCP

DFS

Windows Server

ADFS

Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)

Okta

PowerShell

Job description

Insight Enterprises in Austin, TX seeks a Lead Microsoft Identity Engineer to strengthen enterprise identity services across AD, Entra ID, and related platforms. You will lead AD migrations, design and troubleshoot directory services, and drive modernization in hybrid environments.

The role requires 7+ years of engineering experience with AD, authentication protocols, and cloud identity. Expect onsite work in Austin with remote Fridays, and a quarterly bonus structure.