Site Reliability Engineer I
Job Summary
Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior SRE Identity & Directory Services - Hybrid for a 12 month contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte NC and Plano TX.
The Senior SRE Identity & Directory Services is responsible for ensuring the availability security resilience and operational excellence of enterprise identity platforms. This role acts as a subject matter expert (SME) for Active Directory identity tooling and cloud identity services working closely with engineering security and platform teams to design operate and continuously improve identity reliability. This is a senior hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise strong engineering discipline and the ability to influence platform standards and remediation strategies at scale. The role has a hybrid schedule requirement of a minimum of 3 days per week.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as primary SRE and technical SME for Active Directory identity services and supporting tooling
- Design and operate highly available resilient AD and identity architectures including backup restore and disaster recovery capabilities
- Partner with security and engineering teams to remediate identity vulnerabilities misconfigurations and legacy/non-permitted technologies
- Implement site reliability engineering practices for identity platforms including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets proactive monitoring and alerting and chaos/resiliency testing
- Lead automation efforts for identity operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
- Support multi-cloud identity integrations across Azure AWS and GCP ensuring secure authentication authorization and secrets handling
- Provide technical leadership during incidents root cause analysis and post-incident remediation
- Establish and enforce engineering standards patterns and guardrails for identity platforms
- Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on secure identity design and operational reliability
Requirements:
- Deep expertise in Active Directory (AD) architecture replication DNS trusts GPOs and security hardening
- Experience with AD backup recovery forest/domain restoration and incident response
- Experience applying SRE principles to infrastructure platforms (availability resilience observability) and operating Tier 0 or mission-critical systems
- Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management (IAM) including authentication authorization federation and privileged access
- Hands-on experience with Azure AWS and GCP identity and security services
- Experience identifying and remediating identity-related vulnerabilities misconfigurations and legacy tools
- Scripting and automation experience (PowerShell Python Bash)
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform or equivalent)
Desired skills:
- Experience with Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) concepts
- Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions (e.g. vaulting session monitoring)
- Secrets management and key management systems
- Policy as Code and configuration compliance frameworks
- Experience integrating identity platforms with CI/CD and platform engineering teams
- Strong background in incident management root cause analysis and continuous improvement
- Ability to influence standards and mentor engineers across teams
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity please apply!
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract contract-for-hire and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
- Access to hundreds of clients most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- Access to an experienced caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience on average.)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical Dental Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas NYC SF and Illinois)
For multiple years running Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance as a Best Company for Career Growth for Diversity and for Leadership amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
Required Experience:
IC