Remote Senior Directory Services Engineer

GoDaddy Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GoDaddy is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer, Directory Services, to join the Identity and Access Management team. You will tackle complex identity infrastructure across Active Directory, certificate services, DNS, replication, and Linux integration while operating at enterprise scale.

You’ll collaborate with security, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to strengthen monitoring, privileged access controls, and audit readiness, and you’ll develop runbooks, automation, and security

Qualifications

• Deep expertise securing and managing Microsoft Active Directory in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of AD hardening, authentication protocols, DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, replication, and secure baselines.
• Experience securing Windows Server environments, DNS, Certificate Services, lifecycle management, and risk reduction.
• Proficiency integrating Linux with AD using SSSD, realmd, Samba, Kerberos, LDAP, and PAM.
• Hands-on automation and security operations using PowerShell, Python, Bash, Puppet/OpenVox, incident response, monitoring, and privileged access controls.

Responsibilities

• Secure, operate, and improve enterprise Active Directory services including domain controllers, sites, and Group Policy.
• Harden supporting directory services including Windows Certificate Authority, DNS, and AD replication.
• Investigate and resolve identity, authentication, Kerberos, LDAP, DNS, certificate, and replication issues across Windows and Linux.
• Support and optimize Linux integrations with AD using SSSD, realmd, Samba, Kerberos, LDAP, and PAM.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to strengthen monitoring and privileged access controls.
• Develop standards, runbooks, automation, and security controls to reduce risk at scale.

Skills

Active Directory

Kerberos

LDAP

PowerShell

Python

Bash

SSSD

Tools

Realmd

Samba

PAM

SSSD

Pluggable Authentication Modules

Job description

GoDaddy is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer, Directory Services, to join the Identity and Access Management team. You will tackle complex identity infrastructure across Active Directory, certificate services, DNS, replication, and Linux integration while operating at enterprise scale.

You’ll collaborate with security, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to strengthen monitoring, privileged access controls, and audit readiness, and you’ll develop runbooks, automation, and security