Active Directory / Identity Engineer (Journeyman)

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks an Active Directory / Identity Engineer to administer, sustain, secure, and recover the Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services environment supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This position manages AD objects, organizational units, Group Policy Objects, trusts, replication, schema changes, delegated permissions, domain services, and recovery capabilities.

The Active Directory / Identity Engineer provides direct, hands-on AD DS support while assisting with approved Identity, Credential, and Access Management initiatives. The engineer helps test potential Okta integrations and other identity-modernization technologies without reducing the program’s need for strong traditional Active Directory engineering and operational expertise.

The engineer works closely with the Senior AD/Identity Engineer, cybersecurity personnel, Service Desk, systems administrators, cloud and application teams, COOP personnel, and Government identity stakeholders. The position supports routine directory administration, complex troubleshooting, modernization testing, disaster recovery, and critical incident response.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. Occasional after-hours maintenance, COOP exercises, incident response, on-site support, or travel may be required.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Active Directory / Identity Engineer will:

• Administer, maintain, update, troubleshoot, and recover Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services.

• Create, modify, disable, delete, and maintain authorized AD objects in accordance with approved procedures.

• Manage users, computers, groups, service accounts, organizational units, shared resources, and related directory objects.

• Maintain domain, organizational-unit, site, trust, Group Policy, and administrative-design documentation.

• Implement and maintain approved organizational-unit structures.

• Manage OU-level permissions and delegated administrative access using least-privilege principles.

• Review delegated permissions and identify excessive, obsolete, inherited, or conflicting access.

• Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot Group Policy Objects.

• Manage GPO links, inheritance, precedence, security filtering, WMI filters, backups, and recovery.

• Assess proposed Group Policy changes for technical, security, and customer impact before production deployment.

• Identify and correct conflicting, obsolete, duplicative, or ineffective Group Policy settings.

• Maintain trusted relationships with enterprise and authorized external Active Directory structures.

• Configure, validate, monitor, and troubleshoot approved domain and forest trusts.

• Review trust direction, transitivity, authentication scope, name-suffix routing, and related settings.

• Maintain AD sites, subnets, site links, replication schedules, and replication topology.

• Monitor and troubleshoot replication failures, latency, lingering objects, directory inconsistencies, and topology problems.

• Support the health and availability of domain controllers, directory databases, SYSVOL, DFS Replication, time synchronization, and AD-integrated DNS dependencies.

• Monitor Flexible Single Master Operations roles and support approved role-transfer or recovery activities.

• Support domain-controller installation, configuration, replacement, upgrade, demotion, and retirement.

• Assist with planning and executing transitions to supported versions of Active Directory.

• Support controlled AD schema updates and approved schema extensions.

• Assess proposed schema changes for compatibility, replication impact, operational risk, and recovery requirements.

• Maintain current directory schematics, architecture diagrams, trust diagrams, replication diagrams, and object-management documentation.

• Process or support approved account, group, permission, and organizational-unit changes escalated through Service Desk and access-management processes.

• Troubleshoot authentication, authorization, account, group-membership, policy, trust, replication, and directory-permission issues.

• Coordinate with Service Desk personnel to improve identity-related troubleshooting, ticket routing, escalation, and knowledge content.

• Provide advanced support during identity, authentication, domain, and access-management incidents.

• Recognize widespread authentication failures and escalate potential outages through approved incident-response procedures.

• Collect directory logs, replication information, policy results, configuration data, and other evidence needed for root-cause analysis.

• Implement approved corrective and preventive actions resulting from incidents and problem reviews.

• Maintain and execute Active Directory backup and restoration procedures.

• Test system-state backups, deleted-object recovery, authoritative and non-authoritative restoration, and forest-recovery procedures.

• Support COOP exercises, disaster-recovery tests, recovery validation, and actual continuity events.

• Document recovery results, technical deficiencies, corrective actions, and lessons learned.

• Support testing of approved ICAM and identity-modernization technologies.

• Assist with integration testing between Active Directory and Okta or other Government-approved identity platforms.

• Validate identity synchronization, authentication flows, attribute mappings, group mappings, account linking, provisioning behavior, access controls, and error handling.

• Support testing involving approved federation and modern authentication protocols such as SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth, SCIM, or LDAP.

• Develop and execute test cases, expected results, rollback steps, and validation procedures for identity integrations.

• Document defects, technical findings, corrective actions, and test results.

• Coordinate identity-integration activities with cybersecurity personnel, application owners, cloud teams, network teams, and Government identity authorities.

• Evaluate approved identity-modernization capabilities while preserving required AD DS authentication, authorization, Group Policy, trust, recovery, and administrative functions.

• Automate approved AD administration, health validation, reporting, and audit activities where appropriate.

• Review applicable directory audit information and report activity outside approved baselines.

• Apply approved Active Directory security baselines and DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides.

• Support remediation of directory-service vulnerabilities, configuration findings, and policy deficiencies.

• Support Risk Management Framework control implementation, evidence collection, assessment activities, and corrective actions.

• Follow approved incident, problem, change, configuration, access, release, security, and quality-management processes.

• Maintain standard operating procedures, recovery plans, test results, change records, configuration baselines, and technical documentation.

• Provide directory-service health, risk, issue, recovery, and modernization information for program reporting.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category.

• Minimum of six years of relevant experience in Active Directory administration, identity engineering, Windows infrastructure, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Direct, hands-on experience administering Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services in an enterprise environment.

• Experience managing AD objects, organizational units, Group Policy Objects, trusts, replication, schemas, delegated permissions, and directory recovery.

• Experience troubleshooting authentication, authorization, Group Policy, replication, trust, and directory-services issues.

• Experience supporting Active Directory backup, restoration, disaster recovery, or deleted-object recovery.

• Experience testing identity integrations or supporting enterprise identity-modernization activities.

• Understanding of the distinction between core AD DS responsibilities and external ICAM, federation, or cloud-identity services.

• Knowledge of enterprise identity security, least privilege, delegated administration, account management, and access-control principles.

• Ability to maintain architecture diagrams, domain and OU documentation, Group Policy records, recovery procedures, and technical standards.

• Ability to support after-hours maintenance, COOP exercises, disaster-recovery testing, and critical incidents when required.

• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:

• Experience integrating Active Directory with Okta.

• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID or hybrid identity.

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense identity environments.

• Experience with SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth, SCIM, LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM, or federation technologies.

• Experience with Active Directory Federation Services or comparable identity-provider technology.

• Experience using PowerShell for Active Directory administration, reporting, or automation.

• Microsoft identity, Windows Server, Azure, or security certification.

• Okta Certified Administrator or comparable Okta certification.

• CompTIA Security+ or another relevant security certification.

• Experience with CAC, PIV, certificate-based authentication, public key infrastructure, or DoD enterprise authentication.

• Experience applying DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides to Active Directory or Windows infrastructure.

• Experience supporting Risk Management Framework controls and authorization activities.

• Familiarity with Zero Trust identity principles.

• Experience using Active Directory monitoring, privileged-access, identity-governance, or audit tools.

• ITIL v4 Foundation certification.

Skills and Competencies

• Enterprise Active Directory administration.

• Organizational-unit and Group Policy management.

• Trust, replication, schema, and permissions support.

• Directory backup, restoration, and recovery.

• Identity integration and modernization testing.

• Authentication and authorization troubleshooting.

• Security baseline and least-privilege implementation.

• PowerShell and administrative automation.

• COOP and disaster-recovery support.

• Technical-documentation development.

• Cross-functional identity and infrastructure coordination.

• Strong configuration discipline and attention to detail.

• Ability to retain hands-on AD DS expertise while supporting modern ICAM capabilities.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
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