SECURITY ARCHITECT L1

Job Description

AD ::
please help with additional profiles for this role. Attached JD for your reference. Below are the pointers from JD for your reference
1.    AD engineering role- SME to build application on AD . Below skills required
·       AD DS
·       Azure AD / Entra ID
·       GPO Management
·       AD Security Hardening
·       AD Migration/Consolidation
1.    Semperis-good to have
2.    IAM experience- must have
3.    Powersheel- Proficent
4.    .NET - Begineer

Strong Entra ID profile all ok, T.E-8+ yrs, along with Azure AD / Entra ID.
GPO Management.

The engineer will be responsible for designing, securing, and operating enterprise identity infrastructures across Active Directory (on prem) and Entra ID (Azure AD). The role requires expertise in directory services engineering combined with advanced skills in identity threat detection and response (ITDR) tools such as Semperis DSP or equivalent platforms.
Key Responsibilities
•    AD Infrastructure Management → Administer domains, forests, trusts, replication, and GPOs.
•    Entra ID Operations → Manage hybrid identity, conditional access, and federation.
•    ITDR Deployment → Operate Semperis DSP or similar tools to detect and remediate identity based threats.
•    Threat Monitoring → Identify privilege escalation, persistence techniques, and lateral movement.
•    Hardening Strategies → Implement secure delegation, privileged access controls, and zero trust principles.
•    Incident Response → Provide L3 support for AD/EntraID incidents including breaches and replication issues.
•    Cross Team Collaboration → Integrate AD/EntraID security monitoring with SIEM/SOAR platforms.
•    Documentation → Maintain architecture diagrams, threat findings, and remediation plans.
Required Skills & Experience
•    5-8 years in Active Directory engineering in enterprise environments. (Replication, GPO, DNS troubleshooting, NTP, AD Backup restore) AD Migration or Upgradation. LDAP and LDAPS
•    Hands on expertise with Entra ID and hybrid identity models.
•    Strong knowledge of Kerberos, LDAP, NTLM, DNS, PKI integration.
•    Experience with PowerShell scripting and automation for AD/EntraID tasks.
•    Good to have  Semperis DSP / ITDR frameworks or equivalent tools.

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Do

1. Design and develop enterprise cyber security strategy and architecture

a. Understand security requirements by evaluating business strategies and conducting system security vulnerability and risk analyses

b. Identify risks associated with business processes, operations,

information security programs and technology projects

c. Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats and design security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge

d. Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements

e. Provide product best fit analysis to ensure end to end security covering different faucets of architecture e.g. Layered security, Zoning, Integration aspects, API, Endpoint security, Data security, Compliance and regulations

f. Demonstrate experience in doing security assessment against NIST Frameworks, SANS, CIS, etc.

g. Provide support during technical deployment, configuration, integration and administration of security technologies

h. Demonstrate experience around ITIL or Key process-oriented domains like incident management, configuration management, change management, problem management etc.

i. Provide assistance for disaster recovery in the event of any security breaches, attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity

j. Provide solution of RFP s received from clients and ensure overall design assurance

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i. Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications, hardware related to cyber risk security in order to better match business outcome objectives

ii. Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/ architecture

iii. Depending on the client s need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs

iv. Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology

v. Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions

vi. Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps

vii. Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem

viii. Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

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2. Stakeholder coordination & audit assistance

a. Liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide timely support and future recommendations

b. Provide assistance in maintaining an information security risk register and help with internal and external audits relating to information security

c. Support audit of security best practices and implementation of security principles across the organization, to meet business goals along with customer and regulatory requirements

d. Assist with the creation, maintenance and delivery of cyber security awareness training to team members and customers

e. Provide training to employees on issues such as spam and unwanted or malicious emails

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Deliver