Active Directory Senior Systems Administrator

For more than 15 years, Talan has been advising companies, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in France and internationally. Present on four continents, Talan aims to achieve a turnover of 350 million euros for 3,500 consultants in 2021. The group places innovation at the heart of its development and intervenes in areas linked to technological changes such as Big Data , IoT, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

Talan Canada is growing and looking to strengthen its team with an Active Directory Senior Systems Administrator for the Montreal office, who is interested in working with clients from multiple industries.

• Participate in Active Directory troubleshooting of domains and provide L3 support for incident management.
• Participate in Active Directory consolidation & migration activities.
• Apply standard group security policies.
• Provide support to application teams for application integration.
• Define OU tree and delegations.
• Deliver package to create groups, service accounts, policies and delegation model.
• Ensure security level of new trusted AD forest.
• Set trust relationships.
• Help with users/resources/applications migration.
• Data Management Administer / Support file services and DFS.
• Manage CIFS shares and permissions, on multi-sites environment.
• Merge / Reorganization of Folders / Shares.
• Support infrastructure providing end users data in his/her workplace (DFS, Login Script, File Share Service).
• Review capacity planning (share occupancy and forecast)
• Provide support to application teams for management of their Accounts/Groups/Admin-Accounts in Active directory, using either standard Microsoft tools, homemade provisioning tools or external
• Identity Management solution.
• Create groups in Active Directory to support Projects/Needs. P

Technical Skills:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2016.
• Microsoft Active Directory DNS, NTP, DHCP, resplication, trusts Strong authentication.
• PKI Management. ADFS & Office365.
• Data Management (CIFS, ACL NTFS, DFS).
• Scripting (Visual Basic, PowerShell) Azure (AD connect)

Competencies:

• Experience in troubleshooting.
• Experience in consolidation activities.
• Experience in working with stakeholders and other technical teams to collect business and technical requirements and design AD integration with enterprise solutions.
• Basic understanding of Project Management.
• Architecture/design and implementation experience
• Agile practices are a plus
• Client-oriented and capable of explaining in a simple way complex concepts
• Comfortable using communication tooling (like PowerPoint, digital tools, workshops
• ITIL Agile practices are a plus

Experience Needed:

• Minimum 3-5 years' (Intermediate) infrastructure support.
• Minimum 3-5 years' (Intermediate) Active Directory infrastructure support.
• Minimum 2-4 years’ Scripting/PowerShell development.
• Minimum 2-4 years’ Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016 installation and support.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelors degree, DEC or equivalent technical certifications
• Languages: Bilingual English/French a plus but not required