IAM Professional

IAM Professional

Location: Atlanta, GA

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid 3 days on-site

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months
• Pay Rate: $88.00 $90.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: 8:00 AM 5:00 PM EST
• Interview Process: 2 virtual rounds
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

The Identity Security team is looking for an IAM professional with extensive Active Directory experience to improve their AD implementation and modernize it with extension into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the broader cloud environment. The Senior Professional, Identity & Access Management designs, implements, and oversees identity and access management systems within the organization. With minimal supervision, this role ensures secure access to resources, minimizes risk exposure, and maintains compliance with security standards. The candidate will be responsible for cleanup, automation, and remediation within AD Forest and Domain environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, operate, and secure Active Directory forests, domains, trusts, organizational units, Group Policy, and domain controllers.
• Partner with IAM and PAM teams to design and support privileged access controls, including administrative group structures and delegated administration models.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and remediate Active Directory health issues, including authentication failures, replication, DNS dependencies, domain controller availability, and account state incidents.
• Support integrations between Active Directory and identity governance, access request, authentication, and certification platforms.
• Develop and maintain standards, runbooks, and operational documentation for Active Directory services and domain controller operations.
• Participate in change management, incident response, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives aligned to the IAM roadmap and security strategy.
• Develop integration patterns with AWS to facilitate authentication with AD using LDAP or Kerberos.
• Develop application development patterns encouraging app devs to leverage Kerberos over just LDAP.

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft Active Directory in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Active Directory security principles, delegation models, and privileged group management.
• Experience operating Active Directory as part of an integrated Identity and Access Management (IAM) ecosystem.
• Proven troubleshooting skills across authentication, replication, DNS, account lifecycle, and access issues.
• Experience working with AWS and any of its Active Directory implementation options (e.g., Managed AD, self-hosted, etc.).
• Experience integrating Active Directory with identity governance or privileged access management platforms.
• Experience supporting global, multi-domain, or multi-region Active Directory environments.
• Hands-on experience with MS Entra.
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Terraform.

Preferred Skills

• Microsoft or AWS certifications.
• Hands-on engineering background with an architecture foundation.

Required Experience

• At least 6 years of experience, with 8 years preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This global food and agriculture company is the largest privately held enterprise in the United States, operating in more than 70 countries with customers in 125, connecting the world's agricultural supply with the people and industries that depend on it. Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars on Glassdoor across more than 5,700 employee reviews, the organization is consistently recognized for its collaborative culture and strong work-life balance, offering long-term career stability rooted in its private ownership model. Teams here span agronomists, supply chain and logistics specialists, food scientists, commodity traders, risk analysts, finance professionals, and technology teams including identity and access management engineers contributing to outcomes that are global in scale.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-09356

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