About Us:

HomeAway, based in Austin, Texas, is the world leader in vacation rentals with more than 2 million unique places to stay in 190 countries, and is a part of the Expedia, Inc. family of brands. 

HomeAway offers an extensive selection of vacation rental homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, especially more room to relax, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. The company also makes it easy for vacation rental owners and property managers to advertise their properties and manage bookings online.

The Opportunity:

As for IT, we take on problems of scale and work with state of the art technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving hard problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to innovate. The Active Directory Engineer provides support, implementation, and design services for Microsoft Active Directory and Windows-based systems across the enterprise, including directory and identity management solutions. You will resolve and complete assigned cases and change requests and raise support issues. Applies new solutions through research and collaboration with team and helps resolve courses of action for new application initiatives. Implements new software solutions as required by the business. The core infrastructure technology duties include enterprise Microsoft Active Directory and Windows file services architecture creation and management, global system security and policy configuration, and top-level support for enterprise-wide initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Group Policy Object management
• Designing, writing, and maintaining PowerShell automation scripts
• DNS Management
• Operational Support: Identify, pursue problems and address issues as they arise
• Build and maintain system documentation for domain technologies, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and monitoring
• Improve existing processes through solutions to recurring problems and improvements to existing solutions or documentation
• Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of server resources, systems and key processes
• Assist with training users as required

Required Skills/Experiences:

• B.S. degree in a computer science, information technology, computer related discipline or 3+ years IT work experience in a global information technology infrastructure
• Superb interpersonal skills with ability to work multi-functionally across multiple teams
• Proven understanding of Active Directory topology - Sites, Replication Links, Subnets, Trusts
• Understanding of granular delegation of permissions in Active Directory
• Strong PowerShell scripting skills
• Experience using PowerShell for automation
• Good understanding of the creation and deletion of DNS records,DNS forwarding, and DNS client configuration
• Basic understanding of SSL certificates used with LDAPS (Secure LDAP), Machine Authentication Certificates, Wi-Fi Access, and Website Access
• General understanding of networking, including IP subnets,VLANs, and NIC Teaming
• Critical thinking and analysis skills: The ability to methodically identify causes of problems, understand impact of a problem, plan and implement resolution of the problem, document findings
• Log Analysis: User is experienced using Windows Event Logs, Splunk, Syslogs, Application Logs, etc.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Familiar with Jenkins or other script runner
• Familiar with Okta or other SSO solution provider
• Experience with Git/GitHub for handling administrative scripts
• Exchange/Office 365 administrative experience
• Certificate Authority administration experience
• Knowledge of Load Balance VIPs
• AWS Cloud experience, AWS IAM experience

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits
• Competitive salary
• Annual target bonus or commission
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
• Parental Leave (up to 20 weeks based on eligibility)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Free snacks and beverages, including breakfast on Fridays
• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team
• Free listing on HomeAway.com
• Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk
• Discounted Metro & Rail pass
• Casual dress

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.