Active Directory SME

Job Title: Active Directory SME
Location: Remote with occasional travel to Manchester
Salary/Rate: Up to £470 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 16/02/2026
Job Type: Contract role until December 2026

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• AD Security Remediation Resource Responsibilities
• Analyze & Prioritize Findings
• Review AD security findings, assess severity, and determine remediation actions.
• Implement Fixes
• Apply configuration hardening, update GPOs, correct permissions, resolve insecure settings, and remediate privileged groups or service accounts.
• Clean Up AD Objects
• Remove or fix stale, orphaned, or misconfigured accounts, computers, and SPNs.
• Coordinate Changes
• Work with AD, IAM, platform, and application teams to validate and implement changes through proper change control processes.
• Document & Report
• Record remediation steps, update tracking logs, and provide clear status updates to security and project stakeholders.
• Recommend process improvements and help establish ongoing monitoring and governance to prevent recurrence.
  

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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