Messaging & AD Subject Matter Expert

Ask IT consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ask ITC Inc. is seeking a Senior Messaging & AD Consultant with 10–15 years of experience. The role requires extensive knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, LDAP, and wireless systems, with enterprise-scale design and implementation expertise.

The position concentrates on managing Exchange environments (2003–2013), AD, and related technologies, including Office 365 migration and automation with PowerShell. On-call rotation and cross-team collaboration are expected.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft messaging and directory services.
• Experience with Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013 environments.
• Strong PowerShell scripting and automation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Operate day-to-day Messaging Systems: Exchange servers, domain controllers, DNS, ADFS, Azure AD Connect.
• Lead messaging projects, upgrades, and architecture changes.
• Develop procedures for Exchange maintenance and mailbox management.
• Troubleshoot messaging issues in collaboration with other IT teams.
• Plan and implement Office 365 migration to Exchange Online.
• Monitor incidents, capacity, and performance; meet SLAs.
• Participate in on-call rotations and monitoring improvements.
• Contribute to Messaging Engineering activities and documentation.
• Support AD consolidation across multiple domains and forests.
• Install, configure, and maintain AD and migration tools; enhance PowerShell scripts.

Skills

MS Exchange

Active Directory

LDAP

PowerShell

Messaging Systems

Office 365 migration

Tools

ADFS

Azure AD Connect

Job description

Ask ITC Inc. which is backed by a $500 million Microtek group company, provides an industry leading blend of technology, business consulting, and outsourcing services.

Ask IT is a minority-owed enterprise; it has been founded on providing the highest quality possible and on the devotion to customer satisfaction.

Job Description

Senior Messaging & AD Consultant with engineering with 10-15 Years.

Extensive and Advanced knowledge of messaging, MS Exchange, Active Directory, LDAP, wireless systems and large enterprise systems development methodologies.

Messaging and Directory Services Subject Matter Expert (SME) position requires in-depth knowledge of Microsoft-based infrastructure design and development, messaging and directory services best-practices and advanced knowledge of systems engineering, operations and management. The consultant should have architect level experience planning, documenting, installing, managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting high-availability Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 environments. Active Directory for Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, a wide range of wireless messaging technologies and advanced knowledge of messaging security and hygiene.

Detailed responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the day-to-day operations of Messaging Systems. Hosted applications include but are not limited to, Microsoft Exchange servers, Windows 2012 / 2012R2 and 2008 R2 domain controllers, DNS servers, ADFS servers, and Azure AD Connect servers.
• Lead messaging projects, software upgrades, architecture changes and implementation of new components within the environment.
• Develop procedures for routine Exchange server maintenance tasks such as realigning Exchange database copies within DAGs, moving mailboxes, etc.
• Troubleshoot Messaging Server issues, working in collaboration with other relevant IT areas and vendor support towards a quick and effective resolution.
• Develop Office 365 migration strategy for on-prem Exchange servers to Exchange online.
• Responsible for monitoring and resolving Service Desk escalated incident and problem tickets assigned to the Exchange team. All incidents should be worked to service level targets and resolutions documented in call detail.
• Monitor performance levels and capacity of supported applications, and assist in proper capacity planning and management.
• On-Call rotation required
• Engage with tools team to ensure proper monitoring of all supported Messaging Applications.
• Engage in Messaging Engineering activities as required, such as developing build documents, testing configurations and patches, and planning deployments.
• Support the AD consolidation project, which consists of migrating multiple child domains and disparate AD forests into the Enterprise Active Directory Forest.
• Install, configure, and maintain Active Directory and third party migration products for the duration of the project.
• Develop and enhance PowerShell scripts as needed.

Must possess good communications and writing skills, be organized, have ability to define and socialize new processes, able to effect change in a dynamic environment, comfortable working at many org levels, & must be team-oriented and performance-orients

Additional Information

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