Active Directory / Entra ID Architect/Engineer

About the opportunity:
New Era Technology is seeking an experienced Entra ID engineer to supplement the existing team. Candidate must have a strong background in designing, building and maintaining complex, large scale and global identity directory services environments. This is a 4-month remote opportunity.
Responsibilities:
The candidate will be able to successfully perform the following activities:

• Conduct high level project design and create project charters.
• Review Entra ID disaster recovery plans for gaps and define next steps.
• Engineer, deploy, operationalize, maintain, and support tools associated with Entra ID.
• Contribute to the engineering and support of Entra ID to include.
• Conditional Access
• Authentication strengths including Passwordless & MFA.
• SSO (SAML, OAUTH & OIDC)
• Enterprise & Custom Applications
• Entra Privileged Identity Management
• Multiple Tenants to include National Cloud tenants.
• Communicare service enhancements and operational efficiency directions, features, and roadmaps aligned to the roadmap.
• Providing technical leadership to others with less knowledge or experience.
• Liaise with, train, and support operational teams.
• Assist in technology evaluations and guiding proof of concepts.
• Participate in solution design discussions.

Required Skills:

•  Senior and experienced AD and Entra ID Engineer (5-7 years) with Large, Global Enterprise Experience.
• 5+ years experience in directory services engineering.
• Excellent understanding of Entra ID Security.
• Tool Development: Experience performing POC testing and driving deployment of Entra ID service-related tools both COTS and self-developed.
• Proficient with Microsoft Graph to automate tasks and generate reports with Entra ID.
• Customer Focus: Ability to work with application owners to troubleshoot Entra service and integrations issues.
• Experience with National Cloud Entra ID tenants.
• Documentation: Ability to author, review, and edit technical documents at an Engineering and Operational level.
• Presentation and Training: Ability to conduct knowledge transfer sessions to Engineering and Operations.
• Making Recommendations: Seek and recommend improvements on existing architecture, provide recommendations to improve IT systems.
• Experience with assisting in creating of Identity and Access Management (IAM) roadmaps for global directory services.
• Understanding of modern authentication (OIDC, SAML, Kerberos, etc.)
• Understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).
• Experience with privileged access management for administering Entra ID.
• Experience developing solution and system architecture.
• Debugging and troubleshooting experience with Entra ID.

• Preferred Skills:
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English.
• Collaborative team worker - both in person and virtually using MS Teams or similar.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to leverage existing documentation.
• Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Business outcomes mindset.
• Solid balance of strategic thinking with detailed orientation.
• Self-starter, ability to take initiative.
• Flexibility to accommodate working across different time-zones.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and work experience. Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, Microsoft Certified Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect Expert a plus. 

About Us:
New Era Technology is a community of like-minded, like-hearted people who share the same vision and values: Community, Integrity, Agile, and Committed.
These visions and values tie into our daily work, to serve as a trusted technology adviser to our customers. Often a single project leads to a long-lasting partnership where we have the continued privilege of helping our customers deliver valuable technology solutions that improve efficiencies and experiences to their employees and customers.
EEO Statement:
New Era Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.