Directory Enablement Senior Engineer - EY Global Delivery Services

Directory Enablement Senior Engineer - EY Global Delivery Services

Location:

CABA

Other locations:
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Requisition

Directory Enablement Senior Engineer

Technology has always been at the heart of what we do and deliver  need technology to keep an organization the size of ours working efficiently. We have 250,000 people in more than 140 countries, all of whom rely on secure technology to be able to do their job every single day. Everything from the laptops we use, to the ability to work remotely on our mobile devices and connecting our people and our clients, to enabling hundreds of internal tools and external solutions delivered to our clients.

Technology solutions are integrated in the client services we deliver and is key to us being more innovative as an organization.

EY Technology supports our technology needs through three business units:

Client Technology (CT) - focuses on developing new technology services for our clients. It enables EY to identify new technology-based opportunities faster, and pursue those opportunities more rapidly.

Enterprise Workplace Technology (EWT) – EWT supports our Core Business Services functions and will deliver fit-for-purpose technology infrastructure at the cheapest possible cost for quality services. EWT will also support our internal technology needs by focusing on a better user experience.

Information Security (Info Sec) - Info Sec prevents, detects, responds and mitigates cyber-risk, protecting EY and client data, and our information management systems.

The opportunity

As part of dynamic and highly knowledgeable teams, the Directory Enablement Engineer drives the best practices in basic to complex engineering activities aligned to directory services technologies and supports the remediation and implementation directives for the technology as may be identified by or assigned to the Identity & Access Management Services (IAMS) group within Information Security. The role designs and develops said architectural elements or modifications including but not limited to integrated processes, applications, data and technology remediation.

The role supports the need for engineered solutions from Information Technology (IT) enterprise architecture directives, as determined by operational requirements from such global operations partners as Identity & Access Management Services (IAMS) within Information Security. The role’s efforts maintain directory technologies (e.g. Active Directory, Entra ) and other security aligned functions and performs all work in adherence to EY’s compliance standards for technology development and deployment.

As part of supporting a continuous process improvement remit, the role is expected to utilize a variety of modern IT systems management technologies for large, complex environments including Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Power broker, Active Roles Server, Sentinel reporting and scripting technologies such as Power Shell.

The role’s activities are to remediate or prevent configuration “drift” or the misalignment of a current technical setup of hardware and software to an alignment of technology that does not support the intended IT process or service. The role’s remit additionally advances the specifics of the assigned IT landscape and technologies further up the maturity curve as part of the IAM service’s lifecycle and as such supports technical planning for new or modified versions of all directory technologies in use by IAMS, reviews new technical specifications and identifies changes or modifications, all of which maintain operational readiness in directory services.

The role captures changes and develops engineered solutions according to agreed specifications such as Operating Level Agreements (OLA) or Service Level Agreements (SLA) and partners with appropriate Domain peers on core components of the IT infrastructure to be aligned or augmented to accept same prior to implementation. The role provides and drives the integration of these amended services by engaging in appropriate planning of all phases of deployment as well as testing for compatibility in order to achieve an integrated architecture across…