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# Active Directory Engineer / Specialist

- **Company:** Reed
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- **Salary:** £68,928.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Domain Name System (DNS), SQL Databases
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5896695264

## About the Role

* Experienced Active Directory Engineer/Specialist
 * Hands-on experience performing domain migrations
 * Experience decommissioning legacy domains
 * Ability to produce and own HLD and LLD documentation
 * Experience inputting into delivery planning
 * Experience with AD DS, Entra, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Sites and Services, Certificate Services, hosted SQL databases, migration validation, and legacy-domain decommissioning

## Description

* Produce and own HLD and LLD documentation
 * Input into delivery planning
 * Perform domain migrations
 * Decommission legacy domains
 * Work on migration activities across users, groups, service accounts, servers, OUs, GPOs, DNS zones, DHCP scopes, and AD topology
 * Support migration validation

Technologies:

 * Active Directory
 * Support
 * SQL, We are offering a 6 month contract with strong potential for extension. The role is fully onsite in Newcastle upon Tyne and sits inside IR35 at £500-£565 per day via umbrella. We are looking to bring in an experienced Active Directory specialist to support an exciting domain migration programme, with the opportunity to contribute to a high-profile project and extend beyond the initial contract period.


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