Directory Services Leader (Microsoft Identity)

Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States; hybrid work arrangement

Company

hirify.global develops materials and solutions for advanced electronics and high-tech industries.

What you will do

• Own the operation, security, resilience, and lifecycle of enterprise directory and identity services.
• Lead architecture, administration, support, and technical reviews for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and hybrid identity.
• Manage identity engineers, contractors, administrators, and service partners while remaining hands-on with engineering and operations.
• Govern privileged access, service accounts, application identities, least privilege, just-in-time administration, and role-based access controls.
• Integrate identity platforms with Saviynt IGA and PAM, supporting provisioning, access reviews, entitlement governance, and reconciliation.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, audits, documentation, and remediation of technical debt and control weaknesses.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant IT experience designing, operating, and securing enterprise Microsoft identity environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Active Directory, Entra ID, hybrid identity, privileged access, directory recovery, and identity lifecycle management.
• Experience leading technical teams while directly participating in engineering, operations, major incidents, and root-cause analysis.
• Working knowledge of Kerberos, LDAP, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and certificate-based authentication.
• Strong communication, documentation, stakeholder-management, and technical decision-making skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Saviynt IGA or PAM, or a comparable enterprise identity platform.
• Experience integrating identity services with SAP, cloud services, databases, infrastructure, and enterprise applications.
• Experience in global manufacturing, industrial, semiconductor, chemical, or regulated environments.
• Experience with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, REST APIs, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, Intune, or Purview.
• Relevant Microsoft, identity, security, or cloud certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with collaboration across Infrastructure, Cloud, Applications, Compliance, Service Management, and manufacturing technology teams.
• Comprehensive pay and benefits package.
• Work focused on advanced electronics, cybersecurity, identity governance, and high-availability enterprise services.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation support for applicants.