BeyondTrust PAM Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Coppell (TX); On-site; USD 134,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in the United States is seeking an experienced BeyondTrust PAM Specialist to lead delivery and operations of privileged access management services. You will oversee Password Safe and BeyondInsight, manage vaulting, rotation, access governance, and reporting while coordinating with security, infrastructure, and support teams.

The role requires strong PAM platform expertise, customer-facing delivery skills, and leadership abilities, with opportunities to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Cybersecurity Operations, or Security Service Delivery.
• Strong hands-on expertise with BeyondTrust Password Safe and BeyondInsight, including administration, configuration, and operational support.
• Deep understanding of privileged account lifecycle management, credential vaulting, automated password rotation, access policies and approvals, session management, and PAM governance.
• Proven experience leading PAM delivery, managed services, platform support, or enterprise security operations.
• Strong working knowledge of Active Directory, MFA, SIEM, and ITSM integrations within enterprise security environments.
• Experience with incident, request, change, problem, escalation, and service management processes.
• Experience supporting audit, compliance reporting, privileged access reviews, evidence collection, and remediation activities.
• Strong understanding of service governance, SLA/KPI management, operational metrics, risk management, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent customer communication, stakeholder management, team leadership, troubleshooting, and escalation-management skills.
• BeyondTrust certifications and security credentials such as CISSP, CISM, or Security+ are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day service delivery and operational oversight for BeyondTrust Password Safe and BeyondInsight services.
• Manage privileged account lifecycle activities including onboarding, credential vaulting, password rotation, access approvals, session controls, and reporting.
• Serve as the primary coordination point for customer stakeholders, PAM engineers, platform teams, and support resources.
• Plan and track platform assessments, account onboarding, service enhancements, operational improvements, and support activities.
• Monitor platform health, SLAs, incidents, requests, recurring issues, risks, and service performance through established governance processes.
• Coordinate PAM integrations and dependencies with Active Directory, MFA, SIEM, ITSM, infrastructure, application, database, network, and security teams.
• Ensure platform changes follow approved incident, change, problem, testing, release, and documentation processes.
• Support audit and compliance requirements through privileged access reporting, evidence collection, control validation, and remediation tracking.
• Lead and mentor PAM engineers and analysts, manage work allocation, and provide escalation support for complex platform and service issues.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen PAM adoption, automation, service consistency, security posture, and operational efficiency.

Skills

BeyondTrust Password Safe

BeyondInsight

Privileged Access Management

Active Directory

SIEM

ITSM integrations

Leadership

Customer facing

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services

About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced BeyondTrust Privileged Access Manager to lead the delivery and ongoing operations of enterprise Privileged Access Management services. This role will focus on BeyondTrust Password Safe and BeyondInsight, ensuring secure privileged account lifecycle management, credential vaulting and rotation, access governance, and privileged session management. The ideal candidate will combine strong PAM platform expertise with customer-facing service delivery, operational governance, and team leadership capabilities. The role requires close coordination with security, infrastructure, application, directory, and support teams to maintain a stable, secure, and compliant PAM environment.

In this role, you will:

• Lead day-to-day service delivery and operational oversight for BeyondTrust Password Safe and BeyondInsight services.
• Manage privileged account lifecycle activities including onboarding, credential vaulting, password rotation, access approvals, session controls, and reporting.
• Serve as the primary coordination point for customer stakeholders, PAM engineers, platform teams, and support resources.
• Plan and track platform assessments, account onboarding, service enhancements, operational improvements, and support activities.
• Monitor platform health, SLAs, incidents, requests, recurring issues, risks, and service performance through established governance processes.
• Coordinate PAM integrations and dependencies with Active Directory, MFA, SIEM, ITSM, infrastructure, application, database, network, and security teams.
• Ensure platform changes follow approved incident, change, problem, testing, release, and documentation processes.
• Support audit and compliance requirements through privileged access reporting, evidence collection, control validation, and remediation tracking.
• Lead and mentor PAM engineers and analysts, manage work allocation, and provide escalation support for complex platform and service issues.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen PAM adoption, automation, service consistency, security posture, and operational efficiency.

What you need to have to be considered

• 8+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Cybersecurity Operations, or Security Service Delivery.
• Strong hands-on expertise with BeyondTrust Password Safe and BeyondInsight, including administration, configuration, and operational support.
• Deep understanding of privileged account lifecycle management, credential vaulting, automated password rotation, access policies and approvals, session management, and PAM governance.
• Proven experience leading PAM delivery, managed services, platform support, or enterprise security operations.
• Strong working knowledge of Active Directory, MFA, SIEM, and ITSM integrations within enterprise security environments.
• Experience with incident, request, change, problem, escalation, and service management processes.
• Experience supporting audit, compliance reporting, privileged access reviews, evidence collection, and remediation activities.
• Strong understanding of service governance, SLA/KPI management, operational metrics, risk management, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent customer communication, stakeholder management, team leadership, troubleshooting, and escalation-management skills.
• BeyondTrust certifications and security credentials such as CISSP, CISM, or Security+ are preferred.

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Applications will be accepted until 16 Nov 2026.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $[134,000 - 154,500] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan