Active Directory Expert

For our client in the region of Ghent, we are looking for a freelance Dutch speaking Active Directory Expert.

Candidates who are not Dutch speaking will not be considered for this role.

Role As an Active Directory expert, you will join the European Active Directory (AD) Domain Administrator Support Team, based in Ghent. Your main responsibility will be to manage and support our EMEA wide Active Directory domain and services in all its facets, making sure they are always running in good health, secure and up to date. You will work with a diverse and dynamic team of IT professionals who share a common vision and mission to deliver the best IT services to our customers and stakeholders.

Main Responsibilities

• Providing timely and efficient support for assigned operations.
• Troubleshooting AD / LDAP authentication and authorization issues.
• Assisting in the management and support of DNS service and name resolution issues and requests.
• Assisting in the management and support of the Certificate Authority Service.
• Facilitating an advisory role on application SSOs using AD Federated Services.
• Supporting L1 and L2 teams, having AD related issues and inquiries.
• Monitoring and auditing the complete AD environment.
• Implementing AD security measures.
• Making sure the Domain Controllers are running the latest version of Windows.
• Implementing business-driven changes and integrating AD management tools, services and applications.
• Analyse the current AD environment to identify technical and operational challenges and proposing solutions for improvement.
• Continuously seeking opportunities to improve the existing AD architecture.
• Independently leading large-scale AD and Identity Management projects.
• Collaborating with senior staff to resolve escalated, complex incidents.
• Handling communications between the EU and Global AD leaders.
• Making sure European and Global AD tasks and request are being actioned.

What you bring to the team

• Minimum of 8 years of IT and business/industry work experience, with at least 2 years of experience with managing large scale Active Directory environments and related services, such as, DNS, CA, ADFS, NPS, DHCP, LDAP(S), GPO, Kerberos & Windows authentication.
• Hands-on experience with AD Domain migrations and Domain Controller installations, configurations and upgrades.
• Solid ITIL service management & SLA reporting experience.
• Experience in managing 3rd parties and vendors.
• Good understanding of Enterprise Architecture, Information architecture and Infrastructures/solutions architecture.
• Knowledge about leading infrastructure products and vendors
• High level of personal integrity, and the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and exude the appropriate level of judgment and maturity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate network-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to translate business goals requirements issues into technical and service specifications.
• Ability to quickly assess the impact of technical issues on the business and make decisions appropriately is required.
• Fluent in Dutch, this is an absolute must.