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 2003-2022
• 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