Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Complex Systems, Enterprise Infrastructures, Identity Access Management (IAM), Operating Systems (OS)Certifications:
NoneExperience:
8 + years of related experienceUS Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
ENTERPRISE ACTIVE DIRECTORY & IDENTITY ENGINEER
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Active Directory & Identity Engineer who understands that enterprise identity involves much more than managing users and computers. This role requires deep knowledge of how domains, forests, organizational units, Group Policy, trusts, authentication, DNS, and replication work together in a complex environment. You will engineer, troubleshoot, maintain, and modernize identity services across a large enterprise infrastructure. The position supports established on-premises Active Directory environments while advancing the adoption of Microsoft Entra ID and Azure-based identity capabilities.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
Responsibilities
- Engineer and improve complex Active Directory environments spanning multiple domains, forests, organizational units, and interconnected systems.
- Analyze and manage Group Policy design, inheritance, precedence, filtering, enforcement, and enterprise-wide impact.
- Troubleshoot Windows authentication, domain connectivity, replication, DNS integration, policy application, and directory-related issues.
- Investigate how identity configurations affect operating systems, applications, infrastructure services, security controls, and other enterprise capabilities.
- Support domain trusts, forest relationships, cross-domain authentication, and directory dependencies.
- Help integrate and evolve traditional Active Directory services with Microsoft Entra ID and Azure identity capabilities.
- Identify configuration weaknesses, policy inconsistencies, security gaps, and opportunities to improve identity administration.
- Use PowerShell and related tools to analyze configurations, automate administrative tasks, validate policy enforcement, and improve operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with engineering teams across systems, applications, virtualization, networking, cloud, and cybersecurity.
Why This Role Is Different This is not a routine account administration position. Active Directory is a foundational service supporting an enterprise mission across 28 IT engineering disciplines. Identity changes can affect endpoints, servers, applications, virtual environments, authentication, security controls, and enterprise connectivity. You will troubleshoot issues that cross technology boundaries, evaluate dependencies before implementing changes, and help shape the next generation of enterprise identity services. The role offers hands-on work with both established on-premises infrastructure and emerging cloud identity technologies. What Success Looks Like You understand how identity operates across the enterprise - not just how to administer individual components. You can trace Group Policy behavior through organizational units, inheritance, filtering, and domain configuration. You can investigate authentication failures, replication issues, trust relationships, and directory dependencies using evidence rather than guesswork. You anticipate how changes may affect dependent services, preserve the reliability and security of the existing environment, and help modernize identity capabilities. Most importantly, you become a trusted engineer for solving complex identity challenges that affect the enterprise as a whole. We value critical thinking, independence, continuous learning, cross-team collaboration, and a healthy balance between exceptional performance and family life. If you understand that enterprise identity is the foundation connecting technology - and want to help engineer what comes next - we want to hear from you. Understand the Directory. Control the Policy. Secure the Identity. Engineer the Enterprise.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Enterprise Active Directory & Identity Engineer must have:
- Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
- Experience: 8+ years of related experience
- Technical skills:
- Experience engineering or supporting enterprise Microsoft Active Directory environments.
- Strong knowledge of Active Directory domains, forests, organizational units, and trust relationships.
- Practical experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting Group Policy, including inheritance, precedence, filtering, and enforcement.
- Understanding of Active Directory replication, authentication, DNS integration, and directory services.
- Strong Windows Server and Windows operating system troubleshooting skills.
- Experience using PowerShell to manage, automate, investigate, or troubleshoot Active Directory.
- Ability to diagnose complex issues involving systems and services that depend on enterprise identity infrastructure.
- Ability to independently research technical problems, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft Entra ID administration or engineering.
- Hybrid identity architecture and synchronization between on-premises Active Directory and Entra ID.
- Microsoft Entra Connect or Cloud Sync.
- Azure identity and access management.
- Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).
- Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and public key infrastructure.
- DNS, DHCP, Kerberos, LDAP, and authentication troubleshooting.
- Privileged access management and enterprise identity security.
- Active Directory security assessments, hardening, and compliance.
- Advanced PowerShell automation and reporting.
- Experience supporting large, distributed, multi-domain environments.
- Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Poly
- US citizenship required
- Certification: Must be 8570 compliant with a Security + certification
- Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
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The likely salary range for this position is $136,000 - $184,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA MD Annapolis Junction
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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