Active Directory Monitoring & Observability Specialist - Hybrid

Genesis
10 is currently seeking an Active Directory Monitoring & Observability Specialist - Hybrid for a 11+ month contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Plano, TX and Pennington, NJ.

The Active Directory Monitoring & Observability Specialist is responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of enterprise monitoring, observability, alerting, analytics, and operational intelligence capabilities supporting Active Directory and hybrid identity platforms. This role partners closely with Active Directory Engineering, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cyber Security, Infrastructure Operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Platform Engineering teams to ensure the availability, performance, security, compliance, and resiliency of critical identity services.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise monitoring solutions for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Domain Controllers, Global Catalog Servers, DNS Services, Kerberos Authentication Services, LDAP Services, Group Policy Infrastructure, Active Directory Replication, Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS), and Microsoft Entra  / Hybrid Identity integrations
• Develop proactive health monitoring for replication latency and failures, authentication failures, Kerberos ticket anomalies, LDAP performance degradation, and other critical events
• Implement real-time service health monitoring and enterprise operational dashboards
• Build automated service health scoring and operational readiness reporting
• Design and develop advanced Grafana dashboards and visualizations, creating executive, operational, engineering, and security-oriented dashboards
• Integrate Grafana with platforms such as Splunk, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Open Telemetry, Azure Monitor, and Microsoft Sentinel
• Build service maps, dependency views, SLA/SLO scorecards, capacity analysis dashboards, and trend analysis reporting
• Establish enterprise observability standards and dashboard governance
• Implement observability best practices aligned with SRE principles, defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and KPIs
• Develop automated anomaly detection capabilities and build predictive operational analytics
• Facilitate root cause analysis, trend analysis, and support incident and problem management processes

Requirements:

• Hybrid schedule requirement of a minimum of 3 days per week
• Deep expertise in Active Directory, including Forest and Domain Architecture, Domain Controller Operations, AD Replication, LDAP, DNS, Kerberos, Group Policy Management, and Security
• Strong experience with Grafana dashboard development, metrics visualization, alerting framework design, and data source integration
• Proficiency with Splunk, including Splunk Enterprise, Search Processing Language (SPL), Data Models, and dashboard development
• Experience with additional technical skills such as Prometheus, Open Telemetry, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Sentinel, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Data Dog, Service Now, Power Shell, Python, REST APIs, Terraform, Git, and CI/CD Pipelines

Pay range: $78.04 - $86.04 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis
10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis
10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis
10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis
10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis
10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis
  10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis
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