Lead Microsoft Identity Engineer: Hybrid AD & Entra ID

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

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Quarterly bonus

Job summary

Insight seeks a Lead Microsoft Identity Engineer to support enterprise identity infrastructure across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and related authentication platforms. This role combines hands-on engineering, migration expertise, troubleshooting, and strategic infrastructure improvements to ensure secure and reliable identity services.

You will serve as an SME for AD, authentication technologies, identity security, and directory services while supporting modernization and migration

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise AD engineering and administration.
• Deep expertise in AD design, migration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge of authentication and identity security principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead Active Directory migration projects across forests and domains.
• Design, implement, and maintain AD, DNS, and related services.
• Manage Group Policy for servers and endpoints.
• Support and troubleshoot authentication technologies (ADFS, Kerberos, LDAP).
• Migrate users, groups, and objects between domains/forests.
• Administer identity services in hybrid environments.
• Collaborate on modernization with Entra ID, Okta, and cloud platforms.
• Perform health assessments, remediation, and optimization.

Skills

Active Directory

Group Policy

DNS

DHCP

DFS

Windows Server

ADFS

Microsoft Entra ID

Identity security

Tools

Okta

Microsoft Entra ID

Job description

Insight seeks a Lead Microsoft Identity Engineer to support enterprise identity infrastructure across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and related authentication platforms. This role combines hands-on engineering, migration expertise, troubleshooting, and strategic infrastructure improvements to ensure secure and reliable identity services.

You will serve as an SME for AD, authentication technologies, identity security, and directory services while supporting modernization and migration