Active Directory​/Identity Engineer; Journeyman

Computer World Services, Corp. (CWS) seeks an Active Directory / Identity Engineer to administer, sustain, secure, and recover the Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environment supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This position manages AD objects, organizational units, Group Policy Objects (GPOs), trusts, replication, schema changes, delegated permissions, domain services, and recovery capabilities.

The engineer also assists with testing of approved Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) capabilities, including potential Okta integrations. These modernization activities complement, not replace, the need for direct, hands-on AD DS engineering expertise. The engineer works closely with cybersecurity, Service Desk, systems, cloud, network, application, COOP, and Government identity stakeholders.

• Install, configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and recover AD DS, and create, modify, disable, and delete authorized users, computers, groups, service accounts, and other directory objects.
• Implement and maintain the OU structure, and manage OU permissions and delegated administration using least-privilege principles, correcting excessive or conflicting access.
• Develop, test, deploy, and troubleshoot GPOs, including links, inheritance, precedence, security filtering, WMI filters, backups, and recovery; assess changes for security and customer impact before production.
• Configure, validate, and troubleshoot domain and forest trusts, reviewing direction, transitivity, authentication scope, and name-suffix routing.
• Maintain AD sites, subnets, site links, and replication topology; troubleshoot replication failures, latency, and lingering objects; and maintain domain-controller health, SYSVOL, DFSR, time sync, AD-integrated DNS, and FSMO roles.
• Support domain-controller installation, upgrade, demotion, and retirement and transitions to supported AD versions; support controlled schema extensions.
• Process escalated account, group, and permission changes; troubleshoot authentication, authorization, policy, trust, and replication issues; and improve identity-related Service Desk routing and knowledge content.
• Provide advanced support during identity and authentication incidents, escalate widespread failures through incident-response procedures, and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Maintain and execute AD backup, authoritative and non-authoritative restoration, deleted-object recovery, and forest-recovery procedures, and support COOP and disaster-recovery exercises.
• Support integration testing between AD and Okta or other approved identity platforms, validating synchronization, authentication flows, attribute and group mappings, provisioning, and SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM, or LDAP protocols, and documenting test results.
• Automate approved directory administration, health validation, and reporting; review audit information; apply DISA STIGs and security baselines; and support RMF controls, POA&M activities, and remediation.
• Maintain SOPs, recovery plans, configuration baselines, and directory diagrams, and provide directory-service health, risk, and modernization information for program reporting.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the labor category.
• Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience in Active Directory administration, identity engineering, Windows infrastructure, systems engineering, or a related discipline.
• Direct, hands‑on experience administering Microsoft AD DS in an enterprise environment, including objects, OUs, GPOs, trusts, replication, schema, delegated permissions, and directory…