Senior IT Specialist - M365 & Active Directory Architect

About the role

Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Senior IT Specialist - M365 & Active Directory Architect. The preference is for this position to sit at our Beachwood, OH or Moon Township, PA location however will consider candidates in the other following locations: Galesburg MI, Houston TX, Menomonee Falls WI, or Raleigh NC. The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Responsibilities

• Major decision owner for M365 & AD platform Strategy, Roadmap, design, development, and implementation
• Leads overall effort and works with resources across functions to deliver technology platform, and system solutions to meet customer requirements, providing solution options, making recommendation, and highlighting operational or security risks, as well as providing alternative options
• Defines standards for technologies, platforms, and systems to meet organization requirements
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle
• Identifies technology trends and makes recommendations for improvement to the overall system design and support model while expected to work closely with management team
• Ability to provide Solution Design, Service and Support across Eaton Corporation Enterprise M365 platform including Administration, Tenant Management, Active Directory, Entra ID, Azure Cloud Connect, Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams

Qualifications

• Bachelors' degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum twelve (12) years IT experience
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience in Microsoft Technology domain including Active Directory/M365/Exchange

Skills

• Proven experience of Microsoft M365 suits of applications including Teams, Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot etc.
• Extensive understanding of Commercial Cloud, Govt. Cloud and Regional Microsoft Cloud instances.
• Extensive knowledge of Active Directory including Entra ID, and Entra Connect Sync
• Extensive knowledge of Design and management of single‑forest and multi‑forest environments
• Extensive knowledge of Domain and forest functional level planning and upgrades
• Extensive knowledge of Trust design and management (forest, external, selective authentication)
• Experience with Schema governance, extension planning, and change control
• Experience with Kerberos and NTLM authentication flows
• Experience with Disaster recovery and forest/domain recovery planning
• Experience with Split‑brain DNS and namespace planning
• Experience with Domain consolidation, separation, and coexistence planning and Domain lifecycle management for M&A, divestitures, and spin‑offs
• Experience with end point management & security using Intune
• Experience in M365 tenant deployment, change management and configuration
• Experience with M365 retention and data protection
• Experience with deploying Identity governance controls and Conditional Access
• Experience with managing Exchange Hybrid organizations
• Experience with policy & Governance in a complex global organization
• Experience with Microsoft Teams global administration, 3rd party app integrations, dashboarding etc.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Copilot, Agent governance and Powershell
• Good to have hands on M365 tenant to tenant migration experience
• Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator expert certification preferred