Active Directory (AD) Specialist
Req Id: 87824
City: Greater London, Ipswich
State/Province: Greater London, Suffolk
Posting Start Date: 8/7/25
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Job Description:
Job Description
Role: Active Directory (AD) Specialist
Location: Ipswich (3 days in Office)
Role: The Active Directory (AD) Specialist is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) for both on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions. This role focuses on securing administrative tasks, protecting privileged accounts, and enforcing isolation from regular business workloads, in alignment with industry best practices for identity security and zero-trust architectures.
Key Responsibilities:
PAW Design & Deployment:
• Plan, deploy, and harden PAWs used exclusively for privileged administrative tasks in both on-premises and cloud (Azure, IaaS) environments.
• Build and maintain organizational unit (OU) structures, security groups, and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to support secure PAW management.
• Ensure PAWs operate in strict isolation from standard workstations (e.g., no web browsing, email, or unauthorized software).
Active Directory Management:
• Administer, support, and troubleshoot Active Directory infrastructure (on-premises and cloud/hybrid environments).
• Integrate on-premises AD with Azure AD and participate in domain migrations, consolidations, and hybrid identity solutions.
Security & Compliance:
• Implement strict access controls, security hardening, and network isolation for PAWs, including disabling unnecessary services and restricting network connectivity to only management networks.
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• Configure AD and cloud conditional access policies to enforce that privileged administrative tasks are performed only from PAWs, with mandatory MFA.
• Monitor, audit, and report on privileged access activities to ensure compliance and detect anomalies.
Automation & Scripting:
• Develop and maintain automation scripts (e.g., PowerShell, Python) for provisioning, securing, and maintaining PAWs, and for AD administrative tasks.
• Refactor and integrate custom scripts, tools, and APIs into the environment as needed.
Collaboration:
• Work with IT security, endpoint management, and infrastructure teams to align PAW deployments with overall organizational security strategies.
• Provide documentation, training, and support for PAW users and administrators.
Essential Requirements:
• Proven experience with Active Directory (on-premises and Azure AD), including integration, troubleshooting, and security hardening.
• Strong knowledge of PAW concepts, and hands-on experience deploying or managing PAWs in enterprise settings.
• Experience integrating MFA and conditional access solutions in both on-prem and cloud environments.
• Proficient with automation and scripting tools (e.g., PowerShell, Python).
• Deep familiarity with privileged access management (PAM) concepts, tools, and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to enforce security policies, monitor/audit privileged access, and respond to incidents.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with privileged access management (PAM) solutions like CyberArk or similar.
• Familiarity with virtualization and isolation technologies as they relate to PAW deployment.
• Understanding of compliance frameworks and security standards relevant to identity and privileged access.
• Experience with MFA technologies such as Ping
Key Skills:
• Active Directory administration, PAW deployment, MFA integration, security hardening, Group Policy management, automation scripting, Azure AD, conditional access, privileged access management.
Mandatory Skills: Active Directory .
Experience: 8-10 Years .
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