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, lifecycle, and continuous improvement of enterprise directory and identity services.
• Lead the architecture, administration, and support of Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and hybrid identity services.
• Manage identity engineers, administrators, contractors, and service providers while remaining involved in engineering and technical reviews.
• Govern privileged access, administrative roles, service accounts, application identities, synchronization, authentication, and identity lifecycle processes.
• Integrate Active Directory and Entra ID with Saviynt IGA and PAM, including connectors, reconciliation, provisioning, and access-removal processes.
• Lead troubleshooting, incident response, recovery, audits, documentation, risk remediation, and collaboration with infrastructure, cloud, application, ERP, compliance, and manufacturing technology teams.

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 domains, forests, trusts, organizational units, group policy, replication, authentication, privileged groups, service accounts, and recovery.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Entra ID, Privileged Identity Management, enterprise applications, application registrations, service principals, access reviews, and hybrid identity.
• Experience leading technical teams while remaining directly engaged in engineering, operations, major incidents, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action planning.
• Strong knowledge of least privilege, role-based access control, privileged-access management, administrative tiering, segregation of duties, Kerberos, LDAP, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and certificate-based authentication.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Saviynt IGA, Saviynt PAM, or a comparable enterprise identity platform.
• Experience integrating identity platforms with SAP, cloud services, databases, infrastructure systems, and enterprise applications.
• Experience in global manufacturing, industrial, semiconductor, chemical, or regulated enterprises.
• Experience with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, REST APIs, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, Intune, Purview, or related Microsoft security technologies.
• Experience with mergers, divestitures, directory separations, tenant migrations, large-scale identity transformations, or relevant certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on working manager role balancing security, reliability, usability, and business delivery.
• Opportunity to build a capable identity team with clear accountability, repeatable processes, and strong documentation.
• Comprehensive pay and benefits package.
• hirify.global uses artificial intelligence to enhance its recruitment process.