The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a PAM (Privileged Access Management) Analyst in Vienna, VA/Hybrid.

Role Description

• 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, other solutions
• Provide security consultation on internal projects focusing on business needs, data transmission and identity security best practices.
• Authoring and maintaining documentation procedures, inventories, and diagrams for PAM systems and processes.
• Monitors and responds to capacity and performance needs of the PAM infrastructure.
• Provides regular reports to leadership regarding security, capacity, usage, and licensing
• Provide rotational on-call support for production PAM infrastructure systems and processes.
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Skills & Requirements

• 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
• 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)
• 5-7 years IAM and PAM experience (cyberark, beyondtrust, delinea, etc)
• SAFe agile experience
• Extensive experience working with Privileged Access and Identity Management (PAM)
• experience implementing a PAM solution on Linux, Red Hat Linux, AIX, windows and mainframe systems
• experience integrating PAM solutions with other technologies (servicenow, Savynt IGA, etc)
• has worked for a large organization before in this area
• SOLID Experience in building and deploying PSM & CPM connectors
• Difference between PAM and IAM: PAM protects businesses against users who already have access while IAM protects against everyday users.

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

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