Senior Infrastructure Engineer- remote
Core
Safely decommission old domain servers after migrating dependencies and services.
Role type
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Active Directory & DNS)
Builds
Decommissioned domain controllers and migrated DNS services
Domain
IT Infrastructure / Active Directory / Cloud Migration
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), DNS migration, Azure IaaS, SQL Windows authentication, gMSA / Managed Identity, FSMO operations, Domain Controller demotion, Metadata cleanup, Forest restore, Entra Domain Services
Preferred skills
AD CS, DFS / NTFS permissions
Responsibilities
Rehearse full restore of old directory in test environment, Move name-resolution service (DNS) off old servers, Clean up old directory and take full backup export, Hand over special roles of domain servers and switch servers off one by one including FSMO transfer and demotion, Move management servers to setup not requiring old domain, Decide on handling unknown server records, Move database and service accounts off old Windows logins
