Active Directory Engineer / Specialist

Reed TechnologyNewcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 23 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This contract offers a fantastic opportunity to lead a critical domain migration program, gaining extensive experience in AD DS, Entra, and GPO management within a respected organization. If you're a seasoned Active Directory professional with a knack for high-level design and hands-on migration, this role is perfect for you to make a significant impact. Apply now to contribute to this exciting project with strong extension potential and a competitive daily rate.

Quick Overview

Seniority

Mid Senior

Employment type

Temporary/Casual

Work mode

On Site

Location

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, United Kingdom

SQLActive DirectoryDNS

Job Description

Active Directory Engineer / Specialist

6 Month Contract(with potential for extension)

Newcastle upon Tyne - Fully Onsite

500- 565 Per Day Umbrella(INSIDE IR35)

One of my well respected clients' is currently looking for an experienced Active Directory Engineer/Specialist, to join their team on a 6 month contract. This will be to work on an exciting domain migration programme of work.

This role will be Monday-Friday, fully onsite in Newcastle.

Key Skills and Responsibilities

You will be responsible for producing and owning HLD, LLD, inputting into the delivery planning, hands on experience of performing domain migrations and decommission legacy domains.

The project scope includes but not limited to AD DS, Entra, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Sites and Services, Certificate services, hosted SQL databases, migration validation and legacy-domain decommissioning.

Migration includes users, groups, service accounts, servers, OUs, GPOs, DNS zones, DHCP scopes and AD topology.

The Next Steps

This is an exciting project to be involved in, with a strong potential for extension after the initial 6 months.

If you are interested, pleased submit your updated CV ASAP to be considered. The hiring manager will be reviewing CVs week commencing 28th September.