AD Support specialist
Salary: up to £56,525
Location: Aldermaston, Reading

SC clearance must be held

Day to day tasks include expert management and troubleshooting of Azure and Active Directory services and issues within a complex locked down System 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 design documents and processes along with 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.

As a Solution Support Engineer you will:
* 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
* Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022
* Group Policy Management
* DNS, DHCP, PKI Services

What we're looking for:
* Scripting experience using BAT, PowerShell, C# and VB Scripts
* Awareness of Change and Release Management
* Good knowledge of MS Endpoint Management
* Good knowledge of Office 365 and Exchange Online
* Azure Windows Virtual Desktop
* Azure Containers
* Azure Kubernetes
* Azure Endpoint Management/Intune
* Good knowledge across SCCM; WSUS; SCOM 2019; AGPM; Lumensions.
* ITIL Foundation certified with a broad experience across Service Management disciplines and Agile delivery
* Azure Dev Ops
* CI/CD pipelines
* ARM templates/Bicep
* Microsoft Tiered Model

Benefits:
* Training/Certification of a specific skill need
* Put through DV clearance (including tax allowance)
* Flexible hybrid working (home and onsite - 50 % split)

if you have the skills, apply now!

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