Senior Active Directory Specialist
Location: Johannesburg
Model: Hybrid
Job Description
- Experience in the Identity space with a background in Active Directory or similar LDAP stores.
- Expert knowledge of authentication with SAML, OAuth, OpenID and Kerberos
- Experience knowledge in providing Federated Identity with solutions such as PING Federate or ADFS
- Prior experience in providing RBAC solutions for clouds solutions (e.g. Microsoft Entra ID)
- Experience scripting and automation abilities including PowerShell.
- Engage and advise stakeholders within the business on Identity and Access Management best practices.
- Define, improve and support Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and Privileged Access Management within the organization.
- Working knowledge of Azure Active Directory Connect synchronization software.
- Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs
- Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies
- Positively contribute to define & implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
- Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
- Uphold our technical principles of self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
- Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design & development that is simple, elegant, and useful.
- consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/services in use and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service.
- Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs.
- Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others.
- Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team.
- Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
- Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.
- Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams.
- Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area.
- Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions.
- Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).
Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance
- Participate in incident management & DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
- Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change & release etc.), governance, compliance & regulatory standards and frameworks
- Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
- Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
Accountability: People
- Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries & lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion.
- Contribute to a high-performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working.
- Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design and deployment of technical solutions.
- Proactively seek & provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team & leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery.
- Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution & proactively seek coaching & mentoring from others.
- Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team.
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