Sr. Lead Directory Services Engineer

The Senior Lead Directory Services Engineer is responsible for leading and advancing enterprise directory infrastructure across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. This role oversees Microsoft Active Directory, Entra ID/Azure AD, LDAP directories, Ping Directory, and RadiantOne VDS—along with domain controllers, servers, storage, and network dependencies. This individual ensures uptime, security, replication integrity, and modernization of identity platforms while partnering with Cyber, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders. Key areas of focus include ensuring global uptime, monitoring, and failover of directory services, seamlessly connecting directory services with identity and business systems, and enforcing secure protocols, admin separation, and access tiering. The successful candidate will be responsible for directory & infrastructure leadership, networking & platform integration, architecture, security & hardening, GPO & policy enforcement, identity lifecycle & object governance, endpoint, OS & server security, integration & collaboration, and modernization & strategic initiatives.