Site Reliability Engineer; SRE - Active Directory

Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Active Directory
Description

Job Title:

Site Reliability Engineer

Location:

Chandler AZ 85224

Schedule:

Hybrid (3 days on-site)

Position:
Contract

Duration: 12 months

Job Description:

The Senior SRE - Identity Directory Services is responsible for ensuring the availability, security, resilience, and operational excellence of enterprise identity platforms. This role acts as a subject matter expert (SME) for Active Directory, identity tooling, and cloud identity services and works closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to design, operate, and continuously improve identity reliability.

The SRE will lead efforts to detect, remediate, and prevent identity related vulnerabilities, eliminate non-permitted or non-standard technologies, and embed automation and reliability engineering principles into identity services across on-prem and multi-cloud environments.

This is a senior, hands on role requiring deep technical expertise, strong engineering discipline, and the ability to influence platform standards and remediation strategies at scale.

Primary Skill

Microsoft Azure

Desired Skills

* Experience with Identity Threat Detection Response (ITDR) concepts

* Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions (e.g., vaulting, session monitoring)

* Secrets management and key management systems

* Policy?as?

Code and configuration compliance frameworks

* Experience integrating identity platforms with CI/CD and platform engineering teams

* Strong background in incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement

* Ability to influence standards and mentor engineers across teams?

Required Skill

Key Responsibilities

* Serve as primary SRE and technical SME for Active Directory, identity services, and supporting tooling

* Design and operate highly available, resilient AD and identity architectures, including backup, restore, and disaster recovery capabilities

* Partner with security and engineering teams to remediate identity vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and legacy/non?permitted technologies

* Implement site reliability engineering practices for identity platforms, including:

* SLIs/SLOs and error budgets

* Proactive monitoring and alerting

* Chaos/resiliency testing and failure simulations

* Lead automation efforts for identity operations using Infrastructure?as?

Code and configuration management

* Support multi?cloud identity integrations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, ensuring secure authentication, authorization, and secrets handling

* Provide technical leadership during incidents, root cause analysis, and post?incident remediation

* Establish and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and guardrails for identity platforms

* Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on secure identity design and operational reliability

* Required Skills
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Primary Skills (Required)

* Active Directory (AD)

* Deep expertise in AD architecture, replication, DNS, trusts, GPOs, and security hardening

* Experience with AD backup, recovery, forest/domain restoration, and incident response

* Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
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