Senior Active Directory Engineer - AWS & IAM - Onsite

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior Active Directory Engineer - AWS & IAM position with a Global Agricultural and Food Corporation located in Atlanta, GA. This is a 6+ month contract opportunity and is on-site.

Compensation: $80.00 - $85.00 per hour, W2, based on qualifications

Position Overview:
This role joins the Identity Security team, focusing on improving and modernizing the company's Active Directory implementation by extending it into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the broader cloud environment. The ideal candidate will design, implement, and oversee identity and access management systems to ensure secure resource access and maintain compliance. This is an on-site role with a shift time of 8 AM - 5 PM EST.

Key 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

Primary Requirements:

• 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
• Experience supporting global, multi-domain, or multi-region Active Directory environments

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

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For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most of whom have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

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