Senior IAM & Active Directory Architect (Cloud)

Performix; Wayzata (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Performix in Minnesota seeks a Senior Professional Identity & Access Management to design, implement, and oversee identity and access management systems across the enterprise. This role ensures secure access to resources, reduces risk, and maintains compliance with security standards while collaborating with security and IT teams.

The ideal candidate brings extensive Active Directory expertise and hands-on IAM experience, with a track record of integrating AD with AWS and cloud services.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft Active Directory in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Active Directory security principles, delegation models, and privileged group management.
• Experience operating Active Directory as part of an integrated Identity and Access Management (IAM) ecosystem.
• Proven troubleshooting skills across authentication, replication, DNS, account lifecycle, and access issues.
• Experience working with AWS and any of its Active Directory implementation options (e.g. Managed AD, self-hosted, etc.)
• Experience integrating Active Directory with identity governance or privileged access management platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, operate, and secure Active Directory forests, domains, trusts, organizational units, Group Policy, and domain controllers.
• Partner with IAM and PAM teams to design and support privileged access controls, including administrative group structures and delegated administration models.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and remediate Active Directory health issues, including authentication failures, replication, DNS dependencies, domain controller availability, and account state incidents.
• Support integrations between Active Directory and identity governance, access request, authentication, and certification platforms.
• Develop and maintain standards, runbooks, and operational documentation for Active Directory services and domain controller operations.
• Participate in change management, incident response, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives aligned to the IAM roadmap and security strategy.
• Develop integration patterns with AWS to facilitate authentication with AD using LDAP or Kerberos
• Develop application development patterns encouraging app devs to leverage Kerberos over just LDAP

Skills

Active Directory administration

IAM knowledge

Troubleshooting

Security principles

Change management

Tools

Active Directory

AWS AD

Kerberos

LDAP

DNS

Job description

Performix in Minnesota seeks a Senior Professional Identity & Access Management to design, implement, and oversee identity and access management systems across the enterprise. This role ensures secure access to resources, reduces risk, and maintains compliance with security standards while collaborating with security and IT teams.

The ideal candidate brings extensive Active Directory expertise and hands-on IAM experience, with a track record of integrating AD with AWS and cloud services.