Microsoft Identity Entra Id Senior Consultant

This role focuses on consulting and implementing solutions related to Microsoft Identity Entra ID and Active Directory environments, including identity governance, access management, and security assessments. It involves assessing, architecting, designing, and implementing these systems for clients to strengthen their cybersecurity posture.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assessing Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory environments, including tenant configuration, hardening, identity governance and administration, multifactor authentication, single sign-on, conditional access, and identity provider migrations
  2. Architecting, designing, and implementing Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID deployments, migrations, upgrades, domain consolidations, and domain migration activities
  3. Performing health checks, discovery, cleanup, and security assessments across Active Directory services, including Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Group Policy, privileged groups, service accounts, and disaster recovery readiness
  4. Supporting application and directory integrations across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol environments, Azure B2B, Azure B2C, Security Assertion Markup Language, OAuth, and OpenID Connect
  5. Advising clients on security operations, reporting, threat protection, troubleshooting, and post-implementation reviews for Microsoft identity platforms, including Microsoft Defender for Identity

Skills

Required

  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Active Directory
  • identity governance
  • access management
  • security assessments
  • technical consulting
  • solution architecture
  • conditional access
  • single sign-on
  • multifactor authentication
  • Privileged Access Management
  • Privileged Identity Management
  • application integrations
  • Active Directory Federation Services
  • domain cleanup
  • domain and forest recovery
  • Group Policy Objects
  • group Managed Service Accounts
  • security groups
  • trusts
  • federation
  • Computer Science
  • Cyber Security
  • Information Security
  • Engineering
  • Information Technology

Nice to have

  • identity and access management protocols
  • WS-Federation
  • Security Assertion Markup Language
  • OpenID Connect
  • OAuth
  • Microsoft SC-300
  • Certified Cloud Security Professional
  • Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of experience in technical consulting, client problem solving, and solution architecture for Microsoft identity platforms, including Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID
  • 4+ years of experience implementing and operating Microsoft Entra ID, including conditional access, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, Privileged Access Management, Privileged Identity Management, and application integrations
  • 4+ years of experience implementing and operating Active Directory, including Active Directory Federation Services, domain cleanup, domain and forest recovery, Group Policy Objects, group Managed Service Accounts, security groups, trusts, and federation