PAM Security Engineer

Role: Security Engineer IV – PAM

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ / Alpharetta, GA / Marietta, GA / Frisco, TX / Coral Springs, FL & Omaha, NE (Onsite 5 Days Week)

Duration: Contract to hire

Job Description:

What does a great Privileged Access Management Engineer do?

• The Privileged Access Engineer works under the Director of Privileged Access Management Services to plan, conduct and establish a functional vision for PAM assignments.
• The engineer possesses extensive knowledge related to Privileged Access and is primarily responsible for Lifecycle of a Privileged Access ecosystem under the Director’s direction along with other team members.
• This is a critical role for Client as we embody a post-merger One Client directive.
• This engineer identifies and recommends changes in procedures, processes and scope of delivery.
• He/she will possess and apply comprehensive knowledge of privileged access security controls to the completion of complex assignments.
• The ability to effectively communicate the work required at each step of the process is key, as is the ability to clearly and concisely SWOT issues and decision points.
• The candidate possesses the ability to effectively communicate successes and failures of a model, processes and procedures with clear understanding of critical success.

You’re the kind of person who has:

• Experience with leading Privileged Access products in the industry such as CyberArk (QRadar IBM prferred)
• A deep understanding of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity configurations
• The ability to articulate design concepts of technical product components, such as vaults, safes, session managers, key managers, credential providers
• Experience with protocols, services and traffic flows for authentication
• Can troubleshoot complex heterogeneous environments through server log and network traffic analysis, leaning on experience with troubleshooting and analysis techniques and tools
• Experience understanding taxonomy of privileges on named or shared privileged accounts
• Knowledge of privileged access technologies, including the ability to identify and triage failures or weaknesses in technology design and buildout
• Documentation skills commensurate with an elite engineering team with an eye towards operational stability
• Incorporated cybersecurity best practices for technology governance over privileged account lifecycles
• Skills to perform disaster resiliency tests, discovery audits, and can present findings to management

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience
• 5 years of experience in implementation and integration of privileged access technologies (PAM)
• Experience with privileged access controls in Unix and Windows environments
• Experience with broader IAM ecosystem of directories, identity management, and access management controls
• Scripting (PowerShell/Shell/Python)

Preferred Skills, Experience, and Education:

• Cybersecurity certifications such as CISA, CISSP
• Ability to interface with Corporate Audit and External Audit functions for regulatory compliance
• Experience with Rest APIs for automated provisioning of vault components, accounts and access controls