Senior Engineer, Directory Services
GoDaddy · United States
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**Location / Work Style** - Remote position (work from home) - Occasional visits to a GoDaddy office may be required for team events or meetings - Not eligible to be performed in: Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands - GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in: California, Seattle, or NYC **About the Role** Come join GoDaddy’s Identity and Access Management team as a **Senior Systems Engineer, Directory Services**. You’ll help power the systems that keep people, platforms, and customers connected and secure. You’ll tackle complex challenges across **Active Directory, Certificate Services, DNS, replication, and Linux integration**, operating critical infrastructure at enterprise scale. This role is focused on modernization, strengthening security, and shaping the future of identity services across both **Windows and Linux** environments. **What You’ll Get to Do** - Secure, operate, and improve enterprise **Active Directory** services (domain controllers, sites and services, Group Policy, authentication flows, and directory-integrated services) - Harden supporting directory services, including **Windows Enterprise Certificate Authority**, **Windows DNS**, and **Active Directory replication** to reduce identity infrastructure risk - Investigate and resolve complex identity/authentication issues across **Windows and Linux** (Kerberos, LDAP, DNS, certificates, replication) - Support, maintain, and optimize secure **Linux integrations with Active Directory** using technologies such as **SSSD, realmd, Samba, Kerberos, LDAP, and PAM** - Partner with security, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to strengthen monitoring, privileged access controls, operational resilience, and audit readiness - Develop standards, runbooks, automation, and security controls to reduce operational risk and improve directory services supportability at enterprise scale **Your Experience Should Include** - Deep expertise securing and managing **Microsoft Active Directory** in large-scale enterprise environments (domain controllers, Group Policy, trusts, authentication, and directory-integrated services) - Strong knowledge of **AD hardening**, authentication protocols, **DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, replication**, and secure configuration baselines - Experience securing and administering **Windows Server** environments (DNS, Enterprise Certificate Services, certificate lifecycle management, operational risk reduction) - Proficiency integrating **Linux** systems with Active Directory using **SSSD, realmd, Samba, Kerberos, LDAP, and PAM** - Hands-on experience with automation/scripting and security operations using **PowerShell, Python, Bash**, plus tools/processes such as **Puppet/OpenVox**, incident response, monitoring, change management, and privileged access controls **You Might Also Have** - Experience with hybrid identity or adjacent identity platforms (e.g., **Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, privileged access management, identity governance and administration**) - Experience securing **Windows Enterprise Certificate Authority** environments (certificate templates, enrollment controls, lifecycle management, and certificate services risk reduction) *We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement. We value transferable skills and support learning and growth.* **About GoDaddy** GoDaddy empowers everyday entrepreneurs worldwide by providing tools and support to succeed online
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