Active Directory Engineer

As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specializing in Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Guided by our core values of closeness, teamwork, diversity, and excellence, our team of 1,000 expert consultants, representing 35 different nationalities, collaborates across 10 international offices: Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto, and Casablanca.

We are currently seeking an Active Directory Engineer / Entra ID Engineer to join one of our clients, a major Corporate investment bank based in Montreal.

Role Overview

The Active Directory / Entra ID Engineer will join a global infrastructure and security team responsible for the design, administration, and evolution of enterprise identity and directory services within a large, international, and highly secure environment. The role focuses on maintaining the stability, security, and performance of Active Directory environments (on-premises and cloud), supporting critical infrastructure operations, and contributing to modernization and security initiatives related to identity services.

Key Responsibilities

• Active Directory Administration: Manage and maintain enterprise Active Directory environments, including Domain Controllers, DNS, Group Policy Objects (GPO), ADFS, Sites & Services, and replication across multiple domains and forests.
• Identity Platform Management: Support and administer Entra ID and identity synchronization solutions such as Azure AD Connect, ensuring reliable identity lifecycle and access management.
• Security & Hardening: Contribute to the implementation of security best practices around identity services, including RBAC models, privileged access protection, tiering models, and identity governance principles.
• Infrastructure Projects: Participate in infrastructure transformation initiatives such as directory consolidation, DNS redesign, identity security improvements, and integration of new applications or environments.
• Automation & Scripting: Develop PowerShell scripts and automation tools to streamline administrative tasks, improve operational efficiency, and support auditing or remediation activities.
• Monitoring & Auditing: Support monitoring and auditing of directory services using security and logging tools, ensuring compliance with internal security policies.
• Disaster Recovery & Resilience: Contribute to disaster recovery strategies and operational readiness for directory services, including testing and documentation of recovery procedures.
• Documentation & Governance: Maintain accurate technical documentation and contribute to governance practices around directory infrastructure and identity services.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Experience: 2-5 years of experience working with enterprise Active Directory environments and identity infrastructure.
• Directory Services: Strong expertise in Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, Group Policy, ADFS, and directory architecture concepts.
• Cloud Identity: Experience with Entra ID and identity synchronization technologies such as Azure AD Connect.
• Automation: Advanced PowerShell scripting for administration, auditing, and automation tasks.
• Security Concepts: Understanding of identity security principles such as RBAC, Zero Trust approaches, MFA, and privileged access management.
• Identity & Infrastructure Tools: Experience with enterprise monitoring, security auditing, or directory assessment tools is considered an asset.

Working conditions

• Candidate must be located or willing to relocate to Montreal
• Hybrid 3 days on-site per week
• Participating in on-call and support hours