Senior Active Directory Engineer - IAM & Security

Arctiq: Intelligent Architecture; Duluth (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Arctiq is seeking an Active Directory Engineer to architect, maintain, secure, and optimize Active Directory services and domain controller infrastructure supporting enterprise identity management. You will ensure stability, security, compliance, and high availability while collaborating with IAM, security, and infrastructure teams.

The ideal candidate has hands-on AD experience, implements security segmentation, and serves as a senior resource for day-to-day operations, troubleshooting, and AD

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing Microsoft Active Directory within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven experience implementing fixes and maintenance activities for domain controllers, including patching and configuration changes.
• Solid understanding of Active Directory security concepts, delegation strategies, and privileged access management.
• Experience supporting Active Directory within an IAM framework.
• Strong troubleshooting abilities across authentication, replication, DNS, and account provisioning.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in regulated or audit-focused environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, secure, and support Active Directory forests, domains, trusts, OUs, GPOs, and domain controllers.
• Develop, test, and implement remediation for domain controllers including patching and hardening.
• Support user identity lifecycle processes by provisioning and deactivating AD accounts and security groups.
• Build and maintain role-based and group-based access structures aligned with governance standards.
• Collaborate with IAM and PAM teams to support privileged access strategies and delegated administration.
• Monitor and troubleshoot AD environments addressing authentication, replication, DNS, and access incidents.
• Create and maintain operational procedures and runbooks for AD administration and domain controller management.
• Participate in change management, audit support, incident response, and security improvement initiatives.

Skills

Active Directory

Domain Controller

Security hardening

IAM

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

PowerShell

Group Policy

DNS

AD DS

Job description

Arctiq is seeking an Active Directory Engineer to architect, maintain, secure, and optimize Active Directory services and domain controller infrastructure supporting enterprise identity management. You will ensure stability, security, compliance, and high availability while collaborating with IAM, security, and infrastructure teams.

The ideal candidate has hands-on AD experience, implements security segmentation, and serves as a senior resource for day-to-day operations, troubleshooting, and AD