Active Directory / PowerShell Engineer Consultant

Description

Job Title: Active Directory / PowerShell Engineer Consultant

Duration: 12 months with extension possible to 18 months

Location: Chandler, AZ (3 days per week onsite)

Other Approved Locations: Plano, TX or Charlotte, NC

Pay Scale: $70-75/hr W2 (Cannot subcontract or C2C)

Job Description:

Matlen Silver has partnered with a leading global financial services firm to recruit an Active Directory Engineer with experience in PowerShell scripting that will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks that implement security-driven configuration changes across Windows servers, workstations, and Active Directory infrastructure in response to common vulnerabilities and emergent threats. The engineer must translate security intent into repeatable automated tasks that can be deployed safely at scale. You will partner closely with cybersecurity teams to operationalize advisories and with AD platform teams to ensure changes align with enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Automating GPO creation, modification, and rollback Automating Windows and application patch deployment
• Creating AD-safe configuration enforcement workflows
• Building guardrails that prevent unsafe or partial deployments
• Rapidly converting CVE guidance into deployable updates within hours
• Supporting "break-glass? mitigation scenarios with pre-approved automation

Desired Experience:

• Active Directory, Windows Server, and PowerShell
• Group Policy internals and management tools
• Windows Server and Windows client internals
• Active Directory schema, security descriptors, and replication behavior
• Configuration management (SCCM)
• Git-based version control and code reviews
• GPO administration using Quest GP Admin
• Automated systems validation testing experience is a big plus

About Matlen Silver

Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

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