Senior SRE - Identity & Directory Services - Hybrid

Genesis
10 is currently seeking a Senior SRE - Identity & Directory Services for a hybrid position with a Global Financial Institution located in North Carolina, Texas, or New Jersey. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This senior, hands-on role is responsible for ensuring the availability, security, resilience, and operational excellence of enterprise identity platforms. Acting as a subject matter expert for Active Directory and cloud identity services, the SRE will work with engineering, security, and platform teams to design, operate, and continuously improve identity reliability. The position involves leading efforts to remediate vulnerabilities and embed automation and reliability engineering principles across on-premise and multi-cloud environments.

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, error budgets, proactive monitoring, and resiliency testing
• 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

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in Active Directory (AD) architecture, replication, DNS, trusts, GPOs, and security hardening
• Experience with AD backup, recovery, forest/domain restoration, and incident response
• Experience applying SRE principles to infrastructure platforms (availability, resilience, observability) and operating Tier 0 or mission-critical systems
• Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management (IAM), including authentication, authorization, federation, and privileged access
• Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, and GCP identity and security services
• Experience identifying and remediating identity-related vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and legacy tools
• Scripting and automation skills (Power Shell, Python, Bash)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform or equivalent)

Desired skills:

• Experience with Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) concepts
• Familiarity with Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions (e.g., vaulting, session monitoring)
• Knowledge of secrets management and key management systems
• Experience with 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

Pay range: $58.31 - $66.31 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
  10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis
  10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
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