Active Directory Administrator

Area(s) of responsibility

About Birlasoft:

Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company’s consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group’s 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.

1.  About the Job – Ability to relate the product functionality to business processes, and thus offer implementation
advice to customers on how to meet their various business scenarios.
2.  Job Title – Active Directory administrator
3.  Location: Bangalore/Pune/Mumbai/Noida/Hyderabad/Chennai
4.  Educational Background – BE/Btech
5.  Key Responsibilities –

L1: 
Skills & Experience:
Experience managing Microsoft Active Directory services including:
- GPO operations
- DNS management
Experience in AD services monitoring

Key Responsibilities:
Provide 24x7 support on a rotational basis to maintain system stability.
Monitor Active Directory services, issue identification and basic troubleshooting
Conduct health checks for production and non-production environments.
Perform standard changes like patch management, 3rd party tools upgrades

Soft Skills:
Self-motivated and eager to learn new skills independently.
Verbal and written communication skills.
Team player with a proactive mindset.

L2:
Skills & Experience:
Experience managing Microsoft Active Directory services including:
- GPO operations
- Domain controller maintenance
- Delegation management
- DNS management
- Bulk operations and reporting
- Performance, replication availability, security monitoring
- Certificate issuing
- DC patch management
Basic scripting (powershell)
Good understanding of Windows OS, networking services.
Ability to propose solutions.

Key Responsibilities:
Offer operational support for Microsoft Active Directory services and their components.
Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, including root cause analysis (RCA).
Execute administrative tasks such as system copies, installations, & upgrades.
Change impact and risk assessment and implementation.
Respond to audit requirements, perform required compliance checks.
Documentation maintenance

Soft Skills:
Self-motivated and eager to learn new skills independently.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Team player with a proactive mindset.
Ability to coach junior colleagues.