Senior Systems Administrator
Role Overview
The Senior Systems Administrator, Identity secures, supports, and continuously improves the organization's identity and access management environment.
The role covers identity, authentication, authorization, access lifecycle, privileged controls, governance, and hybrid identity across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, cloud services, and enterprise applications.
The position helps ensure appropriate access for employees, contractors, applications, and systems based on business need, security standards, compliance, and least privilege.
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Role overview
The Senior Systems Administrator, Identity secures, supports, and continuously improves the organization's identity and access management environment.
The role covers identity, authentication, authorization, access lifecycle, privileged controls, governance, and hybrid identity across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, cloud services, and enterprise applications.
The position helps ensure appropriate access for employees, contractors, applications, and systems based on business need, security standards, compliance, and least privilege.
Work arrangement
- Hybrid arrangement with 2 days working from home.
Compensation
- Estimated annual base salary range is $87,990–$116,578.80.
- The position may be eligible for an annual incentive plan; the target bonus is 5% of annual base earnings.
Responsibilities
- Administer enterprise identity platforms and access lifecycle processes, including provisioning, access reviews, and deprovisioning.
- Maintain role-based and least-privilege access, privileged access controls, governance, lifecycle workflows, and access packages.
- Configure and support authentication controls such as MFA, Conditional Access, passwordless authentication, SSO, and federation.
- Monitor identity alerts, logs, sign-ins, reviews, and privileged activity; troubleshoot complex identity and directory issues.
- Maintain documentation, operational procedures, access standards, configuration records, and audit evidence.
- Apply security, change-management, privacy, and Zero Trust principles; support identity modernization and automation.
- Support audits, recommend process improvements, guide stakeholders, and participate in identity incident response and remediation.
Required qualifications
- Associate degree, college diploma, or equivalent formal education in IT, computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related discipline; equivalent education, training, and relevant experience may be considered.
- At least 5 years administering Microsoft hybrid identity environments, including Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
- At least 5 years in IAM, access administration, security operations, infrastructure administration, or a closely related technology role.
- SC-300, Azure Security Engineer Associate, or comparable Microsoft identity certification, within 6 months.
- Experience with Entra Privileged Identity Management, Conditional Access, Identity Governance, lifecycle workflows, access packages, entitlement management, and hybrid synchronization.
- Strong IAM knowledge and hands-on administration of Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 identity services, and enterprise application access.
- Strong audit and compliance experience; ability to analyze access requests, interpret logs, troubleshoot identity issues, and apply security policies.
- Proficiency with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Kusto Query Language, service management, audit controls, security frameworks, and lifecycle automation.
- Ability to communicate technical information, document procedures, and guide stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline is preferred.
- Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft 365 Administrator, Security+, ITIL Foundation, or equivalent identity, cloud, security, or service-management certification is preferred.
- Experience in a global, confidential, regulated, manufacturing, or professional-services environment is preferred.
- Working knowledge of cloud security, networking, PKI and certificates, application architecture, and security operations is preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits include a pension plan, flexible benefit options with medical coverage paid by S&C, paid holiday shutdown, summer hours, seniority recognition, employee assistance, and access to an internal learning platform.
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