Ascent Solutions
Senior Consultant, Microsoft MIM
PayCompetitive
LocationRemote
Employment typeFull-Time
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Job Description
- Req#: 313104000004044009
- Provide industry perspectives, best practices, and security thought leadership to customers during advisory and consulting engagements
- Assist project management by tracking and recording project team hours, expenses, tasks, and meetings
- Develop and execute reference architectures, technical requirements, and configurations
- Support building, deploying, and administrating complex enterprise environments
- Implement Microsoft security products and features in development, tests, and production environments
- Provide customer visibility, technical support, and problem resolution
- Perform product workshop trainings, in-depth reviews, and health checks
- Assess product upgrades and migration success metrics
- 7+ years of security and risk industry experience
- 5+ years of security consulting experience
- 5+ years of Microsoft security advisory and professional services experience with:
- Advanced understanding of Microsoft Active Directory’s structure, permissions, and inheritance
- Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Sync
- Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Services and Portal
- Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Performance and Troubleshooting
- Fundamentals for Windows Server environment (event logs, running processes, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of Active Directory operations in a multi-domain environment
- Strong knowledge of directory services
- Strong knowledge of the following Identity Manager aspects:
- Common management agent types
- Synchronization
- Attribute flow precedence
- AADConnect
- Policy and scoping filter-based synchronization rules
- Building criteria-based sets
- Building action workflows
- Setting transition and request-based management policy rules such as MIM self-service password reset (SSPR)
- MIM self-service password reset
- Scaling and performance of MIM and underlying technology (IIS, SQL)
- PowerShell scripting
- Windows Server troubleshooting
- MIMWAL
- Resource control display configurations
- Oracle, AD-LDS, MySQL
- Active Directory for Object Lifecycle Management processes
- Experience using Active Directory PowerShell/scripting automation
- Basic understanding of Visual Basic/C
- Password Change Notification Service (PCNS)
- GAL Sync
- Azure AD SSPRFamiliarity with Graph/Rest API
- Channel their curiosity to learn, grow, and solve problems
- Receive and implement technical or interpersonal feedback from team members or managers
- Notice and affirm team and co-workers’ successes
- Invest extra time and effort into customer satisfaction and projects
- Organize and prioritize tasks before project or client deadlines
- Show self-motivation to learn new technology or consulting strategies
This is a remote position.
Join Ascent Solutions
Combine one of the fastest growing industries on the planet with collaboration, intellectual diversity, and a culture of excellence—this is what you get. Soaring cyber risk is here to stay, but so are our consultants. We are builders and technologists with a passion for cybersecurity. Join us on our mission to help the nation’s top companies secure, advise, and manage their enterprise architecture.
Ascent is built to help companies evolve their cybersecurity posture, modernize their Microsoft solutions, and secure their journey to the cloud. Our best-in-class consultants understand the demands of today’s modern workplace as well as the technology hurdles it can create. We provide organizations with the expertise needed to move quickly beyond technical constraints and focus on achieving business results.
Ascent consultants are eager to engage with clients and implement secure solutions that drive business value. Intellectual diversity and collaboration drive our innovation process. We believe in evoking a customer’s root pain point. Our consultants provide intuitive solutions to help achieve company goals.
Mission
Work with a premier technology provider to solve unique Microsoft identity problems. Provide deep technical expertise to high-profile customers. Coordinate conversations across multiple stakeholders and lead decision making. Support project delivery teams either remotely or through on premises oversight during project planning, deployment, and administration. Align the project team’s trajectory with customer business value.
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Ascent Benefits
Ascent provides a 401(k) plan, health insurance, accident insurance, disability insurance, paid parental leave, and unlimited paid time off. We practice stewardship of the roles and resources entrusted to us. Our hiring process sources consultants with wholistic skillsets: technical depth, EQ- and IQ-informed communication, and a passion for spreading cybersecurity.
- Provide industry perspectives, best practices, and security thought leadership to customers during advisory and consulting engagements
About the company
Ascent is the technology consulting partner to SECURE, UNIFY, and MANAGE the enterprise. We are built to help firms evolve their cybersecurity posture, modernize their Microsoft solutions, and accelerate their journey to the cloud.