Company Description
We're Together, a mortgage and secured loan provider based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. Lending year-in, year-out for over 45 years, we've grown into one of the finance industry's best-kept secrets.
Our team of over 750 colleagues turn challenges into opportunities that make our customers’ financial ambitions accessible. We try to approach everything we do with good old-fashioned common sense. But in many respects we’re a lot like a start-up: growing fast, and shaking up the status quo.
Job Description
Together intends to develop a World Class IT capability in support of its ambitious business growth plans. As a result of these plans, we now have an immediate requirement for an Active Directory Manager to be based from our office in Cheadle.
The Active Directory Manager has responsibility for all aspects of design, configuration and management of the Active Creation, Governance and management of the forest, directory infrastructure and Schema.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and Implement Active Directory upgrade;
- Overall security implementation and reliability of the forest;
- Creation and removal of domains and top level Organisation Unit (OU) hierarchies;
- Governance, creation, troubleshooting & management of Group Policy Objects (GP), and managing GP links within their OU hierarchy;
- Ensure overall security and integrity of the OU hierarchy;
- Monitoring changes to OU hierarchy to ensure unauthorised changes do not occur;
- Design, Governance and Implementation of the delegation of authority to others for appropriate object administration in the OU hierarchy;
- Creation/deletion/management of objects, i.e. local user accounts, groups, workstations, servers, printers, etc. in the OU hierarchy;
- Regularly perform housekeeping duties to keep their OU hierarchy clear of stale, unused, expired, and other no longer needed objects;
- Process requests for access control authorised by data owner, ensuring in line with IT standards;
- Publish resource objects from their OU hierarchy in the Active Directory as applicable;
- Define and communicate AD procedures and standards;
- Management of DNS and Sites & Services.
Qualifications
Essential Experience
- Extensive experience of managing and administrating Active Directory domains;
- Strong understanding of best practise in Active Directory management, on premise and in Azure;
- Experience of Role Based Access management;
- Experience of working in complex and fast moving IT estates;
- Strong team player;
- Reliable and with high level of attention to detail;
- Good communication skills;
- Proactive self-starter.
Additional Information
We offer a range of company benefits, including 25 days holiday which can be flexed up/down, pension, life assurance, critical illness cover, health cash plan, private medical insurance, regular team/individual incentives, travel season ticket loans, Ride to Work scheme, free gym access and local bar/restaurant discounts.
Career development opportunities are excellent and where appropriate we offer sponsorship of relevant qualifications.
Please note that all successful applicants will be subject to a Criminal Records Bureau check, a credit check and a Fraud Prevention database check.