Windows Server & AD Engineer — Hybrid/Remote

Ampcus, Inc; Little Rock (AR); Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services.

The Windows Server + Active Directory Engineer will administer, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise Windows Server and Active Directory environments, ensuring identity management, authentication, and policy enforcement across the infrastructure. The role includes patching, hardening, monitoring, and day-to-day operations, with emphasis on PowerShell automation, disaster recovery

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience supporting Windows Server and Active Directory in a large enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, authentication protocols, replication, and Windows security.
• Experience with patching, system hardening, monitoring, backup and recovery, and incident/change management processes.
• Proficiency in PowerShell scripting and structured troubleshooting.
• Ability to participate in scheduled maintenance windows and on-call support as required.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, patch, harden, monitor, and troubleshoot Windows Server environments.
• Administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Group Policy, trusts, sites and services, users, groups, and service accounts.
• Support DNS, DHCP, PKI/certificates, LDAP/Kerberos, file services, and related identity dependencies.
• Manage hybrid identity integrations with Microsoft Entra ID, where applicable.
• Investigate and resolve replication, authentication, policy, performance, and availability issues.
• Execute vulnerability remediation, privileged access controls, backup and recovery validation, and disaster recovery testing.
• Automate routine administration tasks using PowerShell and maintain scripts in version control.
• Maintain runbooks, architecture records, configuration baselines, change records, and operational documentation.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

PowerShell scripting

Troubleshooting

Identity management

Tools

Group Policy

DNS

DHCP

PKI/certificates

Microsoft Entra ID

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services.

The Windows Server + Active Directory Engineer will administer, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise Windows Server and Active Directory environments, ensuring identity management, authentication, and policy enforcement across the infrastructure. The role includes patching, hardening, monitoring, and day-to-day operations, with emphasis on PowerShell automation, disaster recovery