**Job Summary** A willingness to be flexible in responding to issues as they occur and the ability to identify product deployment improvements to mitigate future occurrences Self motivated Strong communication and team building skills. Work iteratively in a team with continuous collaboration Excellent client management skills Ownership and accountability **Responsibilities** Designing Configuring and maintaining Active Directory services on Windows server 2003 2008 2012 2016 2019 DC Good knowledge on FIM and ADFS Should have worked on GPO consolidation OU restructuring AD Sites permissions and Domain decommissioning and sizing projects. Remediation of domains Domain controllers build Functional level upgrade. Strong experience on Infrastructure assessment solution design architecture planning and execution for Active Directory domain migrations Experience on Active Directory domain migrations using Quest ADMT or similar tool This is a must Assessment of all domains and Forest along with IIS File Print Database servers etc. Implementation of Azure AD Connect Conditional Access policies MFA FIDO Authentication Windows hello for Business setup Gather migration requirements interacting with multiple stakeholders and Application Owners Good to have Exposure on Azure Infrastructure as a service. Familiarity in the following areas Single Sign On directory schema replication topology RBAC User lifecycle. Managing Identity and Access Management of Azure subscriptions Azure AD Azure AD Application Proxy Azure AD PTA Design and develop specialized automation tools scripts and processes for administration and performance monitoring. Experience in syncing the Objects users groups workstation in Hybrid approach. Excellent knowledge of designing Active Directory DNS DHCP Good to have understanding on authentication protocols such as SAML WS-Fed Oauth and OpenID. Design and implementation of Active Directory Federation Services. Troubleshooting AD Domain migration related issues and suggest best practices End to end support for migration of all directory objects Team player ability to be able to work with virtual teams Ability to work in a variety of client settings and platforms Powershell Knowledge of scripting is add-on Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.