Principal Systems Engineer; Microsoft Active Directory Domains

Principal Systems Engineer (Microsoft Active Directory Domains)

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At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

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We are seeking a Principal Systems Engineer with strong experience in software engineering, automation, cloud platforms, and identity infrastructure to help modernize and scale our enterprise platform services.

This role designs, engineers, and automates secure, highly available infrastructure and identity platforms across hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud). You will bring software engineering discipline to infrastructure, build automation-first solutions, and help move the organization toward self-service, scalable, and resilient platforms.

You will work across teams including application engineering, security, platform, and operations to deliver solutions aligned with enterprise cloud, Dev Ops, and Zero Trust strategies.

• Manages large Microsoft Active Directory Domains.
• Defines and implements schema requirements.
• Manages Active Directory Group Policy Objects.
• Installs and upgrades directory server products.
• Evaluates and provides recommendations of current directories for capacity, network, security and disaster recovery.
• Performs backup and recovery procedures for the directories.
• Maintains support and design documentation.
• Provides technical support to other support personnel and end users.
• Provides rotating 24x7 on-call group support, responds to incidents.
• Participates in incident problem resolution root cause efforts.
• Participates in Audits and Disaster Recover exercises.
• Collaborates with Project Managers, System Integrators to provide project support.
• Works with Information Security personnel.
• Understands Change Management procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 7 years of experience within a total information technology (IT) environment.
• At least 7 years of experience with the design, development and support of technology infrastructure.

• Experience designing and supporting complex enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong experience with automation and scripting or programming languages (e.g. Power Shell, Python, Go, Bash).
• Experience applying software development practices to infrastructure (CI/CD, Git, testing pipelines).
• Software & Automation:
  Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Experience building automation services or internal tools.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and service integration patterns.
• CI/CD tools:
  Git Lab CI, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub, etc.
• Cloud & Platform Engineering:
  Experience in Azure or AWS (Identity, networking, compute, IAM, platform services).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, or modern platform services.
• Familiarity with service meshes or API gateways.
• Identity & Security Engineering:
  Deep experience with Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos, Azure AD / Entra, IAM concepts.
• Experience with SSO, MFA, identity federation, and modern authentication models (OIDC, OAuth).
• Understanding of Zero Trust, PKI, and enterprise security practices.
• Infrastructure & Networking:
  Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls).
• Experience with HA/DR design, resilience engineering, and disaster recovery planning.

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

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