Senior Analyst - AD/Entra ID SME

Overview

PepsiCo is looking for an experienced Active Directory/Azure AD engineer to help drive the enterprise directory strategy forward for the Identity and Access Management organization. As a member of the Directory Services team, the Directory Services Engineer will be responsible for developing, engineering, deploying, and supporting comprehensive solutions based on unique and complex requirements and problems related to identity and directory services. The Engineer will also be responsible for identifying opportunities for the automation of tasks, processes, or complete solutions and acting on them, and identifying any opportunities for improvement in the environment.

Responsibilities

Analyze, design, and support a highly complex, enterprise-level Active Directory service in a hybrid on-premises and cloud-hosted environment.

Manage enterprise identity cloud directories, including Microsoft AD and Azure AD.

Translate business needs into workable technology solutions.

Participate in or lead troubleshooting and incident resolution of complex high severity incidents

Develop automated solutions using scripts, pipelines, and cloud-based server-less computing platforms

Develop detailed architecture, standards, design, and implementation documentation

Analyze the current Directory Services environment to identify technical and operational opportunities and develop continuous improvement action plans.

Participate in disaster recovery, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and maintenance to ensure high availability.

Qualifications

8+ years experience with engineering and design of Active Directory

8+ years in supporting Active Directory

3+ years support Azure Active Directory

Knowledge of the following core concepts

Principle of least privileged access

Principle of revocation of rights

Principle of Just In Time access

Experience with developing, planning, and implementing a large scale enterprise-level Active Directory infrastructure, including but not limited to the following components:

Domain Controller deployment

Securing Active Directory

Advanced GPO settings

Advanced replication management

Experience with governance and compliance, including the following:

SOX controls

Advanced auditing techniques

Experience working with large-scale, enterprise-level LDAP / Active Directory environments

Knowledge of programming/scripting disciplines like the following:

VBScript

PowerShell