Senior Wintel Active Directory SME - DV Cleared Erskine or Newcastle

Senior Wintel Active Directory SME - DV Cleared Erskine or Newcastle

Apply locations GBR - NBL - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Time type Full time

Posted on Posted 4 Days Ago

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Job Description:

ROLE: Senior Wintel Active Directory SME DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is the world's leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. The company's technology independence, global talent and extensive partner alliance combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognized among the best corporate citizens globally. For more information, visit The successful candidate will join a highly skilled team of infrastructure engineers providing technical infrastructure design and implementation to central and regional UK Secure Accounts. The role will require a flexible working ethic and a pragmatic approach to IT Cloud and Platform Project Delivery. Successful candidates will have a design, implementation and support background, great customer service and communication skills. They will have a keen interest in innovation alongside a willingness to implement new ways of working and automation.

Please note, this role will be based on site in either Newcastle or Erskine and as a result we require applications from candidates commutable to either location. The role will be subject to DV clearance so as a result applicants should be UK nationals who hold or meet the criteria for DV.

Description of Role

1. Provide expert design, implementation and troubleshooting for multi forest Active Directory service (DFS, DNS, WINS, LDAP etc)
2. Promote and demote domain controllers
3. Support AD name resolution technologies (DNS, WINS, DHCP, Infoblox)
4. Implement AD security methodologies (JEA, JIT, Delegation models and Tiered Admin model)
5. Perform AD schema extensions
6. Create PowerShell scripts
7. Support Azure AD, AAD-DS and other Azure technologies
8. IDAM project delivery & process design
9. Simplification of complex IDAM processes & tools
10. Maintaining security, standards and high availability of AD architecture
11. Design and review any required changes to Active Directory with a specific focus on structure, delegation models, tiering and management.

Education and Experience required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience. May hold professional or intermediate-level certification(s) in work field. Typically 10+ years of relevant experience. Candidates should possess at least Disclosure Scotland / BPSS clearance or be willing to undertake appropriate security vetting. You will need to either hold or be willing to go through DV clearance as a minimum Essential Knowledge and Skills Required:

1. Microsoft Windows Server
2. Active Directory and Group Policy
3. Role & Functional based Security Delegation and Layers
4. DNS,WINS and DHCP
5. PKI Services
6. SMTP Proxy Servicing
7. Firewall management and controls
8. DFS, HA, Clustering, SOFS
9. RDS, VMWare, vCenter, ESXI, vMotion, HyperV, VMM Terminal Services
10. MS Cloud incorporating Exchange, Storage and Shares App serviced
11. Citrix deployments incorporating PVS\MCS
12. APP-v incorporating Citrix StoreFront
13. Powershell Scripting, MBAM/BitLocker/VPN

Desirable skills and knowledge/certifications

• Any Microsoft / Citrix / VMWare certification
• Wider understanding of client or midrange OSes, networking and security
• HyperV, Azure and Google Cloud
• HP BladeSystem, or similar blade servers / blade chassis and interconnect technologies
• HP Cloud Service Automation, or similar self-service cloud management technology
• HP Server Automation, or similar system configuration / software deployment technology
• Symantec Datacentre Security, or similar security policy enforcement product

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DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at