Directory Services Product Lead- Data centre and Cloud

Job Type: Contract
Posted: over 3 years ago
Contact: Meg Geronimo
Discipline:
Reference: 207851_1606875374

Directory Services Product Lead

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Drive the Directory Services Strategy for the organisation, driving increased stability and simplification of the core platform, while unlocking new security and operational capabilities for the organisation.
  • Manage technology obsolescence pertaining to the Directory Services Products at play i.e. bring in latest technologies to the organisation that add value and retire the one that have reached EOSL
  • Assist in the creation & maintenance of Directory Services documentation which includes a services catalog, service descriptions, design/solution documents and maintenance of a risk register
  • Ability to autonomously investigate and analyse the environment and to discover aspects of the Directory Services product. To subsequently produce relevant documentation regarding the product from investigations/analysis performed
  • Assist in the creation & maintenance of the Directory Services Roadmap based on the current & future state in accordance with the Organisational and Product Roadmaps
  • Ensure that every Directory Services product goes through a complete PDLC & highlights of each stage are documented
  • Ensure that any defects in the Directory Services Product that has entered into production are dealt with on priority and taken through to a permanent resolution

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Qualifications:

  • Preferred - Diploma/Bachelors/Masters in Information Technology/Computer Science

Experience:

  • 8 Years plus experience in the IT industry as a whole especially in technology lead roles
  • 5 Years plus experience as a Microsoft and/or Linux Systems Administrator
  • Experience with Identity Management and SSO technologies, preferably Sailpoint Identity Platform & AzureAD or similar technologies (Okta/Ping/NetIQ/Auth0)
  • Understands Zero Trust, and is comfortable building directory and identity strategies to drive identity based security controls
  • Experience integrating step up authentication and privileged access management technologies
  • Significant experience in designing/maintaining at least one Directory Services Platforms (Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP) and exposure to the other

SKILLS

  • Operating Systems: Five years plus experience of senior administration and design/implementation of Microsoft Windows and at least one Linux Distribution (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, etc), including foundation services such as DNS, DHCP, NTP, etc.
  • Directory Services: Experience planning, designing, implementing and maintaining Directory Services platforms (AD Forests, Domains, Trusts, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy and Organizational Units, AD authentication protocols and integration)

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