Active Directory SME

Methods are looking for an Active Directory SME to work on an initial 6 month contract with a fantastic client of ours. Due to the nature of the role, the successful candidate will be required to be onsite in the Newcastle based office location. The role has been confirmed to fall Outside IR35.

Please note that the successful candidate must either hold active DV Clearance, or be willing and eligible to go through the process to obtain.

This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected. Details of this will be discussed with you at interview

DV Roles

Are you a sole UK National?

Have you lived in the UK for the last 10 years?

Have you had any extended periods of travel over 3 months in the last 5 years?

Have you ever travelled to Russia or China?

If you are successful, are you willing to go through DV Clearance?

Essential Skills

Microsoft Windows Server

Active Directory and Group Policy

Role & Functional based Security Delegation and Layers

DNS,WINS and DHCP

PKI Services

SMTP Proxy Servicing

Firewall management and controls

DFS, HA, Clustering, SOFS

RDS, VMWare, vCenter, ESXI, vMotion, HyperV, VMM Terminal Services

MS Cloud incorporating Exchange, Storage and Shares App serviced

Citrix deployments incorporating PVS/MCS

APP-v incorporating Citrix StoreFront

Powershell Scripting, MBAM/BitLocker/VPN

Desirable skills and knowledge/certifications

Any Microsoft/Citrix/VMWare certification

Wider understanding of client or midrange OSes, networking and security

HyperV, Azure and Google Cloud

HP BladeSystem, or similar blade Servers/blade chassis and InterconnecT technologies

HP Cloud Service Automation, or similar self-service cloud management technology

HP Server Automation, or similar system configuration/software deployment technology

Symantec Datacentre Security, or similar security policy enforcement product

A deep understanding of Virtualisation and Container technologies

Design of large, complex systems including practical experimentation and development skills

Has both technical breadth and depth and great client engagement skills

Knowledge or appreciation of some the listed technologies;

Foreman; Puppet; Satellite; Ansible; Nagios; AI/ML; Big Data; Elastic Search; IaaS; PaaS; HPC; DevOps; AWS; Azure; Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift; Linux based applications