AD/Azure Specialist Hybrid working

Job Title: AD/Azure specialist
Location: Aldermaston, Reading. Hybrid role split 50/50
Salary: £72,000-£75,000
Working hours: standard office hours

You must be a British national to apply of this role. This is due to the nature of the client and the clearances require

Holding SC or DV clearance is a bonus, candidates eligible to go through the clearance will also be considered

ROLE OVERVIEW:

We are looking for customer-focused and enthusiastic Azure and Active Directory Specialist to join our Team supporting a hybrid AD environment. You should have a genuine interest in solving IT issues and empathetic to customer needs and requirements. Day to day tasks include expert management and troubleshooting of Azure and Active Directory services and issues within a complex locked down GPO structure. You should possess good written and verbal communication skills, be willing to collaborate with the wider IT support teams and help us develop a strong partnership with our customers' IT Leadership.

The successful candidate will be responsible in supporting a strategic change to the service model and implementing new statements of work. This will require working closely with the Operations Manager and Account Project Lead to define and implement a more agile and collaborative structure which is capable of blending BAU support with short term projects and ad-hoc requests, where scoped and agreed. This will be achieved by following Agile and ITIL Continuous Service Improvement methodologies.

ESSENTIALS SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

* Azure Active Directory
* Azure Role & Functional based Security Delegation and Layers and Role Based Access Control
* Azure Networking
* Azure Firewalls
* Azure Security including Conditional Access Policies and Multi Factor Authentication and Privileged Identity Management
* Azure Virtual Machine Management
* Azure Storage
* Azure Monitoring and log analytics
* Azure Enterprise and ADFS Application Provisioning
* Active Directory Connect/sync and Active Directory Federation Services
* Azure PowerShell Scripting
* Active Directory in a hybrid environment
* Group Policy Management
* DNS, DHCP
* PKI Services
* Scripting experience using BAT, PowerShell, C# and VB Scripts
* Awareness of Change and Release Management
* Strong communication skills both written and verbal
* Self-motivated with a positive attitude and comfortable working with ambiguity

DESIRABLE SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

* Azure Windows Virtual Desktop
* Azure Containers
* Axure Kubernetes
* Azure Endpoint Management/Intune
* Good knowledge across SCCM; WSUS; SCOM 2012; AGPM; Lumensions;
* Minimum 5 years of active AD role
* ITIL Foundation certified with a broad experience across Service Management disciplines and Agile delivery

Benefits:

* Azure training/Certification
* Put through DV clearance (including tax allowance)
* Flexible hybrid working (home and onsite - 50 % split)

If you have the skill required, apply now!

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