IAM Consultant

Duration: 06 months

Location: Atlanta, GA (Onsite)

·        The
Senior Professional, Identity & Access Management job designs, implements
and oversees identity and access management systems within the organization.
With minimal supervision, this job ensures secure access to resources,
minimises risk exposure, and maintains compliance with security standards.

·        The
client’s Identity Security team is looking for an IAM professional with
extensive Active Directory experience to improve our AD implementation and
modernize it with extension into our Amazon Web Services (AWS) and broader
cloud environment.

Responsibilities
include but are not limited to:

·        Design,
engineer, operate, and secure Active Directory forests, domains, trusts,
organizational units, Group Policy, and domain controllers.

·        Partner
with IAM and PAM teams to design and support privileged access controls,
including administrative group structures and delegated administration models.

·        Monitor,
troubleshoot, and remediate Active Directory health issues, including
authentication failures, replication, DNS dependencies, domain controller
availability, and account state incidents.

·        Support
integrations between Active Directory and identity governance, access request,
authentication, and certification platforms.

·        Develop
and maintain standards, runbooks, and operational documentation for Active
Directory services and domain controller operations.

·        Participate
in change management, incident response, audits, and continuous improvement
initiatives aligned to the IAM roadmap and security strategy.

·        Develop
integration patterns with AWS to facilitate authentication with AD using LDAP
or Kerberos

·        Develop
application development patterns encouraging app devs to leverage Kerberos over
just LDAP

Required
Qualifications include:

·        Hands‑on
experience administering Microsoft Active Directory in large, complex
enterprise environments.

·        Strong
understanding of Active Directory security principles, delegation models, and
privileged group management.

·        Experience
operating Active Directory as part of an integrated Identity and Access
Management (IAM) ecosystem.

·        Proven
troubleshooting skills across authentication, replication, DNS, account
lifecycle, and access issues.

·        Experience
working with AWS and any of its Active Directory implementation options (e.g.
Managed AD, self-hosted, etc.)

·        Experience
integrating Active Directory with identity governance or privileged access
management platforms.

·        Experience
supporting global, multi‑domain, or multi‑region Active Directory environments.