About McDonald’s:

One of the world’s largest employers with locations in more than 100 countries, McDonald’s Corporation has corporate opportunities in Hyderabad. Our global offices serve as dynamic innovation and operations hubs, designed to expand McDonald's global talent base and in-house expertise. Our current office in Hyderabad will bring together knowledge across business, technology, analytics, and AI, accelerating our ability to deliver impactful solutions for the business and our customers across the globe.

Department Overview

Senior IAM Engineer with deep expertise in architecting, transforming, and securing enterprise Active Directory (AD) environments at global scale. Proven leader in driving modernization strategies, strengthening identity security posture, and delivering resilient, highly available directory services. Recognized for influencing architectural direction, leading cross-functional initiatives, and implementing automation-driven solutions that reduce risk and improve operational efficiency

Duties
- Help lead the enterprise architecture, strategy,



and roadmap for Active Directory services, aligning identity platforms with organizational security and resilience objectives.
- Own and drive large-scale AD transformation initiatives, including forest design, domain consolidation, and modernization efforts.
- Provide technical leadership and governance for multi-domain, multi-forest AD environments, ensuring scalability, availability, and security at global scale.
- Define and enforce identity security standards, including authentication hardening, legacy protocol remediation, and attack surface reduction.
- Architect and implement enterprise-grade replication topology, DNS integration, and domain controller placement strategies to optimize performance and resiliency.
- Lead the design and execution of privileged access strategies, including tiered administration models, access segmentation, and least privilege enforcement.
- Establish and gover

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