Senior Active Directory & Azure Solutions Engineer

Parker Hannifin Corporation; Mayfield Heights (OH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin is seeking an Active Directory - Technical Engineer to lead AD services, Azure AD Connect, and security controls across global environments. This role emphasizes architecture, documentation, and continuous improvement within the Directory Services team.

The ideal candidate will have deep AD experience, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to work with external vendors and internal partners. Occasional travel and after-hours support may be required.

Qualifications

• 4-year University / College Degree or significant technical certifications.
• 5+ years of Active Directory experience that includes designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise level Active Directory solutions.
• Three or more years hands-on managing large Multi AD Forest environments, deployments, domain consolidations and migrations.
• Three or more years Managing Azure AD and O365.
• Designing and implementing security controls (MFA, Conditional Access, Hybrid Azure AD joined).
• IAM cloud platforms and components (OKTA preferred).
• Quest AD Management experience is a plus.
• Expert understanding of the capabilities, requirements and interactions of various security technologies and disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Manage large Active Directory environment, lifecycle activities, OS upgrades, hardware replacements.
• Manage AD infrastructure, Azure AD Connect, MIM/FIM for daily operations.
• Consult and provide AD integration guidance for application teams.
• Serves as escalation point for application support and troubleshooting, provides guidance and direction in resolution of escalated issues.
• Work in proprietary ticketing tool for Level 3 / 4 support and ensure SLA's are met.
• Create and maintain system documentation for domain technologies, including installation, configuration, and appropriate troubleshooting steps.
• Stays abreast of new Digital and IT technological innovation/processes and researches the usage at Parker
• Understands business impact; Create and communicate decisions impacting the wider business, effectively managing customer expectations
• Guide and train team members in technical business skills & processes
• Has a broad understanding of Digital and IT strategy across all functions and can assess impact within own area of responsibility.
• Applies and leads continuous improvement initiatives to streamline and improve system efficiencies
• Performs IT life-cycle management methodologies, including design, system analysis of complex technologies with considerable scope, development, testing, project management and change management
• Performs benchmark analysis and ROI on existing & new Digital and IT solutions to estimate, develop and manage budgets and cost/performance analysis.
• Accountable for delivery of technical systems/solutions, plus the architecture and documentation within their area of technical expertise, supporting enterprise and global environments
• Leads the development and implementation of solutions that address new business requirements, risk management and producing standardized documentation
• Establishes methods to monitor and improve performance of systems and processes; Identifies deficiencies in IT systems/processes and recommends solutions
• Single point of contact for all communications with 3rd party vendors while managing project expectations
• Ability to travel as needed
• Available to provide after-hours technical support as needed

Skills

Active Directory

Azure AD

MIM/FIM

Security controls

Okta

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Quest AD Management

Job description

Parker Hannifin is seeking an Active Directory - Technical Engineer to lead AD services, Azure AD Connect, and security controls across global environments. This role emphasizes architecture, documentation, and continuous improvement within the Directory Services team.

The ideal candidate will have deep AD experience, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to work with external vendors and internal partners. Occasional travel and after-hours support may be required.