Multi-cloud Active Directory Administrator

**Date**:Oct 9, 2025

**Location**: Gurgaon, HR, IN, 122002

**Company**:Corning

Requisition Number: 71349

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Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with:

- Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
- Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
- Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
- Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences
- Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation
- SCOPE/PURPOSE OF POSITION:
Reporting to the Global Directory Services Lead, the Multi-Cloud Active Directory Administrator is a senior technology leader that will function as Subject Matter Expert for Active Directory. This position will function in coordination with IT Architecture, Engineering, Operations, Security, Strategic partners, Technology vendors and Project management teams to facilitate the successful delivery of complex Corning initiatives and priorities
Responsibilities will include the administration of the current Corning Active Directory environments, managing aspects of Entra ID, making recommendations for design and process improvement, and automation.
As a core member of the Corning Multi-Cloud Active Directory team, the AD Administrator will be responsible for helping direct and guide the delivery of key priorities across multiple stakeholders This position will require the ability to communicate technical problems and solutions to internal IT support teams as well as business units around the globe.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Install, configure and manage Active Directory (AD), including both on prem and integration with Entra AD
- Adhere to and implement standards, policies & guidelines for Active Directory in collaboration with service line owner, information security, and technology teams
- Develop, Configure, and support High Level Active Directory solutions that meet business needs and align with Corning technology standards.

Must be able to coordinate effectively with other Service Line Owners and Engineers and follow through with tasks until completion. Must be able to take instruction from Project Managers and Team Leads and work independently to complete tasks.
- Help promote a consistent vision and strategy throughout the organization
- Build relationships with internal team members, site leads and other IT teams to foster collaboration and partnerships to drive better strategies, priorities, and service to the customer
- Understand and follow Corning Change Management processes, Incident Response Management, Problem Management and Disaster recovery Methodology
- Willingly shares knowledge and experience with team members as needed to achieve excellence in team building and cohesion.
- Provides escalated support for Business-Critical incidents and problems

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent from four-year college in computer science or related field??
- WORK EXPERIENCE
- 5+ (Can we go to 7+?) years of experience with on prem Active Directory System administration,
- 5+ years’ experience in a production IT environment managing enterprise IT infrastructure, hosting services and Entra cloud infrastructure.

REQUIRED SKILLS
- Active Directory Administration experience at an enterprise level (multiple forests and domains, trust relationships)
- Active Directory Security Best Practice Implementation (e.g., tiered services, GPOs, Privileged Access Workstations, AD Health Monitoring)
- Active Directory Backup / Restore Testing, Ransomware Protection
- Experience with managing Entra PIM roles
- Create and manage Entra Applications and has experience with SCIM configurations
- Has an understanding of Conditional Access Policies
- In depth knowledge of Active Directory and Windows Servers, including
- Active Directory on Prem
- Entra AD
- Entra Sync
- Group Policy Management
- Multi-factor Authentication
- Windows Server Core
- Leads by Example: Professional, big pictu