I would like some help with defining the required Microsoft Active Directory certification and experience for a role in one of my projects.
We require two roles, a manager and senior associate:
The manager is responsible for overseeing day-to-day activities of the senior associate, some architecture knowledge (specifically for microsoft) is also great. The Manager is also responsible for interacting with other stakeholders for required implementation and integration (for example, if a new agent needs to be installed on the domain controller or distributed to the environment, sending DC logs to a syslog...etc)
The senior associate will be the executor as per the manager's assignments.
Can someone please help me by suggesting what certification should I be requiring for both roles, years of experience and other skills (like PowerShell ...etc)
Thank you very much this was actually very useful. I love the fact that certification is probably not the best approach. The organization does have staff but are under staffed and are undergoing some transformation. There are many different controls being implemented on many different systems, so they need more man-power basically to help with the implementation and design. We already have a design team but would need to help them with extra man-power for the implementation, documentation ....etc
So the organization is fairly large, but their main DCs are probably 10-20. The engineer that is the subject of this question will not be solely responsible for managing the MS infrastructure, the organization already has someone to do that. The actual task would be to help implement the controls that are part of the transformation. For example if we want to implement File Integrity Monitoring, we need someone to assess the feasibility of it being implemented on the DCs and how to use the DCs to push the FIPS agents across the organization (just an example)