Directory Services Engineer

Are you an experienced Directory Services Engineer with strong SQL expertise and hands-on experience designing and configuring multi-domain PullPrint solutions? Join Sopra Steria's Directory Services team supporting high-profile systems for a prestigious UK government client. In this secure, office-based environment, you'll play a key role in maintaining and enhancing identity and directory infrastructure that underpins critical national operations. You'll bring specialist knowledge in SQL and PullPrint environments to support complex, large-scale systems, contributing to both business-as-usual service delivery and continuous improvement. Working as part of a collaborative team, you'll help ensure stability across a multi-domain estate while supporting upgrades and introducing new capabilities. Due to the secure nature of this work, the role is office-based. We can consider compressed working hours - five days in four. You will be based at one of our secure UK locations - Gloucestershire, London, Manchester, or North Yorkshire. What you'll be doing:

• Supporting business-as-usual directory services operations, including user account management, access control and identity lifecycle management.
• Administering and maintaining Active Directory Domain Services, including domain controllers, replication, Domain Name System and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
• Designing, deploying, and managing Group Policy Objects across their lifecycle.
• Designing, configuring, and troubleshooting multi-domain PullPrint solutions across a complex estate.
• Using SQL to support querying, reporting and data-driven troubleshooting across directory and print systems.
• Delivering patching, upgrades, lifecycle activities and third line support in line with Service Level Agreements.
  
  Strong experience with SQL, including querying, reporting and troubleshooting in complex environments.
• Strong experience with Active Directory Domain Services in an enterprise environment, including domain controllers, replication, Domain Name System and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
• Expertise in designing, deploying and troubleshooting Group Policy Objects.
• Experience with access control, identity lifecycle management and directory-integrated systems.
• Experience working in operational environments aligned to Service Level Agreements.
It would be great if you had:
• PowerShell scripting experience.
• Understanding of Privileged Access Workstations.
• Exposure to Public Key Infrastructure or hybrid identity environments.
• Awareness of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices.
  
  Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety and security critical markets.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.