PAM Engineer

This role is 100% remote and can sit anywhere in the USA. Role is a contract budgeted for 12 months with potential to extend or convert.

* Brief Description
* Top local financial client (banking/insurance) is looking for a Human Privileged Access SME with deep expertise in Cyber Ark and humanfocused privileged access workflows. This role centers on securing, engineering, and governing human admin accounts - not service accounts - across Windows, Linux, AD, Mainframe, and hybrid cloud environments

* Top Skills' Details
* - demonstrated experience as a SME within Human Privileged Access SME
- ability to articulate deep expertise in Cyber Ark
- ability to articulate deep expertise in humanfocused privileged access workflows.

* Description
* This role centers on securing, engineering, and governing human admin accounts - not service accounts - across Windows, Linux, AD, Mainframe, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Handson Cyber Ark experience managing human privileged accounts, including onboarding users, configuring entitlements, validating elevation paths, and ensuring correct safe/platform configurations.
- Strong understanding of human privileged access workflows, including approval routing, MFA enforcement, PSM/PSMSSH access patterns, and break glass procedures.
- Ability to identify and remediate human privileged access risks, such as excessive rights, misaligned RBAC, inconsistent admin paths, stale or redundant admin roles, and privilege sprawl.
- Deep familiarity with AD group models as they relate to human admin access, including nested groups, delegated admin roles, elevated AD permissions, and privileged role mappings.
- Experience supporting privilegehygiene initiatives, especially reducing standing privileged access, and enabling requestbased or JIT-style elevation patterns.
- Solid automation skills (Power Shell / REST API) to streamline human admin onboarding, entitlement checks, environment validation, and reporting (nonaccessreview).

* Skills
* Cyberark, Iam, Access, windows, linux, active directory, mainframe, Cloud, Access management

* Top Skills Details
* Cyberark,Iam,Access,windows,linux,active directory,mainframe,Cloud,Access management

* Additional

Skills & Qualifications
*
- ** MUST HAVE great communication skills, as they will be coordinating and setting meetings with the business as part of the role as a SME*
* - Experience working thru a Cyber Ark rollout while keeping oversight on the PAM risk issues in previous roles

* Experience Level
* Expert Level

* Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
* Will have opportunity to have hands-on experience with a Cyber Ark rollout across a large Financial Institution (both banking and insurance at the same time). Also will provide opportunity to add to tool belt in terms of gaining more experience in influencing oversight on PAM risk issues across the association.

* Job Type & Location
* This is a Contract position based out of Dallas, TX.

* Pay and Benefits
* The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $102.04/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

* Medical, dental & vision

* Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

* 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

* Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

* Short and long-term disability

* Health Spending Account (HSA)

* Transportation benefits

* Employee Assistance Program

* Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

* Workplace Type
* This is a fully remote position.

* Final date to receive applications
* This position is anticipated to close on Mar 11, 2026.
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