External Job Posting Title Privileged Access Management (PAM) Identity Lead

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Identity Lead to shape and oversee enterprise PAM strategy, architecture, and operations. You will mentor PAM engineers, manage privileged accounts lifecycle, and enforce least-privilege controls across cloud and on-prem environments.

This remote role requires alignment with EST business hours, collaboration across teams, and a focus on security for government and enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's degree with extensive relevant experience as outlined in the job posting.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CASP, CCISO, Security+, or CAP are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor PAM engineers and administrators.
• Develop and implement enterprise PAM strategy, architecture, standards, and processes.
• Manage lifecycle of privileged accounts, including discovery, onboarding, rotation, and deprovisioning.
• Establish controls for privileged credential storage, session management, and just-in-time access.
• Enforce least-privilege across admin, root, domain, database, network, cloud, and apps.

Skills

PAM engineering

Identity security

Leadership

NIST 800-53

CyberArk

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

CyberArk

BeyondTrust

Delinea

Job description

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Identity Lead to join our Team. This person will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of enterprise identity security and privileged access management capabilities. This role establishes and enforces controls that protect privileged accounts, administrative credentials, service accounts, and sensitive access across enterprise systems, cloud environments, infrastructure, and applications.

Work Location: This is a remote position, but candidate must be willing to work during the hours of 8am - 5pm EST

This position is contingent upon contract award

What You Will Do:

• Lead and mentor PAM engineers and administrators.
• Lead the development and implementation of enterprise PAM strategy, architecture, standards, and operational processes.
• Manage the lifecycle of privileged accounts, including discovery, onboarding, credential vaulting, rotation, access provisioning, and deprovisioning.
• Establish and maintain controls for privileged credential storage, session management, privileged session recording, and just-in-time access.
• Develop and enforce least-privilege principles for administrative, root, domain, database, network, cloud, and application accounts.
• Identify and remediate unmanaged, shared, orphaned, and excessive-privilege accounts.
• Oversee the secure management of service accounts, application identities, API credentials, secrets, and other non-human identities.
• Establish monitoring and alerting for privileged access activities and investigate exceptions or anomalous behavior.
• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise for PAM and identity security initiatives.
• Lead implementation projects, platform upgrades, integrations, migrations, and technology enhancements.
• Lead the design, implementation and administration of the PAM platform across enterprise infrastructure and cloud environments.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance
• Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience, a Master's Degree and 10 years of experience, an Associate's Degree and 14 years, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 16 years of experience
• One or more of the following relevant certifications: CISSP, CISM, CASP, CCISO, Security+, or CAP
• Experience with CyberArk or a comparable enterprise PAM platform (such as BeyondTrust or Delinea).
• Experience applying NIST SP 800-53 access controls (AC-2, AC-6) in federal environments.
• Strong understanding of privileged account security, credential vaulting, password rotation, session management, MFA, and least-privilege principles.
• Experience with directory services, enterprise authentication, SSO, identity federation, and access provisioning.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
• PIV-based privileged authentication
• Familiarity with Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM)
• Experience securing privileged access for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), hosting platforms and platform administration.
• Experience integrating PAM with cloud platforms, DevOps pipelines, secrets management, and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of privileged access controls for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, databases, network devices, and enterprise applications.
• Experience with identity threat detection, privileged session monitoring, access analytics, and incident response.
• Familiarity with zero-trust architecture and identity-centric security models.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed athttps://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.