Engineer - Privilege Access Management (PAM)

*****On-site in Vienna, VA 2x/week*****

Responsibilities

• Operation of the Privileged Access Management (PAM) technologies, including accounts management, secrets management, and software and systems patching.
• Lead projects to develop and deliver new security features and/or software updates.
• Work with peers and stakeholders to implement and automate processes for administration and integration with external services.
• Contribute to PAM Security Strategy, including discovery, gap analysis, onboarding, and contributing to short to long term delivery of services and service improvements.
• Design, configure, and maintain PAM solutions for AIX, RHEL, Windows, and Mainframe systems.
• Integrate the PAM solution with various technologies such as Service Now, Compute hosting, IGA, SIEM, and other solutions.
• Provide security consultation on internal projects focusing on business needs, data transmission and identity security best practices.
• Author and maintain documentation procedures, inventories, and diagrams for PAM systems and processes.
• Monitor and respond to capacity and performance needs of the PAM infrastructure.
• Provide regular reports to leadership regarding security, capacity, usage, and licensing.
• Provide rotational on-call support for production PAM infrastructure systems and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or other related fields.
• Industry certifications in cyber security or identity security attesting to broad knowledge of security best practices and design.
• 5-7+ years administering and maintaining Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, such as CyberArk, BeyondTrust, or Delinea.
• Experience working in large security access system upgrades/projects using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum or Kanban.
• Significant experience working in a large IT organization with responsibility for supporting the technology and processes in the Privileged Access Management domain and controls program, preferably in a financial services organization.
• Considerable experience with Identity and Access Management vendors like Microsoft, CyberArk, Saviynt, ServiceNow, RSA, etc.
• Significant experience in working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Significant experience administering tier zero identity infrastructure that provides AAA services such as Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, PKI, Federation Services, and RSA.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective in producing desired results and achieving goals and objectives.
• Practical skill presenting findings, conclusions, alternatives, and information clearly and concisely.
• Experience in developing automated solutions and processes using PowerShell for Windows and BASH for UNIX/Linux.
• Demonstrates an understanding of how PAM integrates with common resources such as Windows, Linux/UNIX, VMWare, Azure, SQL/Oracle/DB2 database systems, Network appliances, and Mainframe.
• Familiar with change control processes (Production Discipline) to ensure up time and business continuity.

Other qualifications
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• CyberArk Certifications (Defender, Sentry, Guardian) certs advance from left to right.
• SOLID Experience in building and deploying PSM & CPM connectors.
• Scripting background for automation and Ansible (preferably doesn't rely solely on AI or Google).
• Experience with Credential Providers (AAM and CCP) Setup, Deployment, Support, Use.
• PTA experience (nice to have).
• Physical Server and OS platform expertise (nice to have).

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