Associate Director, Information Security

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

12

S&P Global Market Intelligence

The Role: Active Directory Operations

The Team: We are seeking a highly skilled Active Directory (AD) Operations Engineer to support the reliability, security, and performance of our Enterprise Solutions Active Directory Forest. This role will focus on operational excellence, automation, modernization, and continuous hardening of identity infrastructure.

The Impact: This is an excellent opportunity to join Enterprise Solutions as we modernize and harmonize our identity infrastructure into a unified platform. In this role, you’ll build valuable skills, deepen your expertise, and contribute to the services that will help power the markets of the future.

What’s in it for you: In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to directly influence the security and reliability of our core identity platform while working with modern cloud-based technologies. You’ll gain exposure to advanced identity threat protection capabilities, collaborate with skilled engineers across security and cloud disciplines, and grow your expertise in a high-impact domain central to the some of the organizations most critical products.

Responsibilities: The Enterprise Solutions function within the Market Intelligence division utilizes a centralize Active Directory Forest as the primary identity store and Windows server management platform for AD integrated products. The Active Directory Operations Engineer will play a critical role in maintaining and securing this platform. This position is responsible for ensuring reliable authentication services, enforcing security policy, driving automation, and working with product teams to migrate legacy environments into this centralized directory. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with a security-first mindset to strengthen identity resilience, improve operational efficiency, and protect against modern threat vectors.

• Operate and maintain Active Directory domain services, including domain controllers, replication, security policies, and DNS integration.
• Monitor and troubleshoot identity-related performance, authentication, and replication issues.
• Implement and enforce security baselines, Group Policy Objects (GPO), delegation models, and privileged access controls.
• Drive automation efforts using PowerShell and infrastructure-as-code methodologies to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
• Manage lifecycle activities: patching, upgrades, schema changes, and deprecations.
• Support integration with cloud directory services (Azure AD / Entra ID) and hybrid identity components.

• Perform auditing, reporting, and compliance activities aligned with identity security best practices.
• Participate in incident response, RCA development, and problem management for identity-related events.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure protections against identity-based threat actors, including credential misuse and attack path exploitation.
• Contribute to resilience improvements, disaster recovery planning, backup strategy, and configuration drift control.

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years’ experience supporting enterprise Active Directory environments.
• Strong understanding of identity authentication mechanisms (Kerberos, NTLM, LDAP, PKI).
• Hands-on experience with implementing and managing the Microsoft Active Directory Tiering Model.
• Hands-on experience with GPO management, RBAC delegation models, and domain controller hardening.
• Proficiency with PowerShell scripting for identity automation and orchestration.
• Familiarity with hybrid identity components such as AAD Connect, Entra Connect Sync, federation, and cloud-based authentication methods.
• Working knowledge of DNS/DHCP, certificates, and AD-integrated services.
• Experience troubleshooting replication, trust relationships, authentication flows, and authorization failures.
• Knowledge of identity governance, privileged access security, and identity threat detection tools.
• Understanding of Zero Trust principles applied to identity infrastructure.
• Experience in highly available, geographically-distributed enterprise environments.

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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