PAM Engineer: CyberArk & Vault Specialist (Remote)

Fairygodboss; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 91,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Hybrid work model

Job summary

PNC is seeking a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Engineer to design, implement, and operate CyberArk PAM and HashiCorp Vault across hybrid environments. The role emphasizes least privilege, secure credential rotation, API integrations, and automation to reduce hard-coded credentials.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, Security Operations, and Compliance teams to ensure secure business operations and audit readiness. Remote work may be approved in select locations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management.
• Strong understanding of privileged access risks, least privilege, and credential management.
• Experience integrating PAM solutions across servers, databases, applications, and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Linux and Windows administration, scripting, and automation.
• Experience operating in regulated or audited environments (PCI DSS, SOC 2, SOX, HIPAA, etc.).
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support day to day Privileged Access Management services, ensuring secure and reliable privileged access.
• Manage onboarding, modification, and decommissioning of privileged accounts.
• Troubleshoot and resolve PAM related incidents, access issues, and platform errors.
• Ensure PAM services meet availability, performance, and operational support expectations.
• Serve as the primary technical engineer and platform owner for CyberArk PAM.
• Onboard privileged accounts, systems, and platforms into CyberArk.
• Configure credential vaulting, rotation policies, access workflows, and session recording.
• Implement approval workflows and controls for administrative and emergency access.
• Partner with infrastructure and application teams to integrate servers, databases, and platforms into PAM.
• Monitor and maintain CyberArk components, connectors, and job health.
• Engineer and operate enterprise secrets management using HashiCorp Vault.
• Implement secure storage, access control, and rotation of application and infrastructure secrets.
• Integrate Vault with CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, and runtime environments.
• Support dynamic secrets, short lived credentials, and non-human identity use cases.
• Partner with development teams to adopt secure secrets management patterns.
• Integrate PAM solutions with on prem, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Support API based integrations and automation for privileged access and secrets usage.
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to reduce hard coded credentials and manual processes.
• Improve onboarding speed and consistency through automation and standardization.
• Monitor PAM health, usage, and access activity.
• Analyze trends and issues to improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
• Maintain PAM technical documentation, standards, and operational runbooks.
• Identify and implement improvements to strengthen privileged access controls and scalability.
• Support audit and compliance activities related to privileged access and secrets management.
• Produce reports and evidence for access usage, approvals, and session activity.
• Assist with remediation of policy violations or audit findings.
• Ensure privileged access controls align with least privilege and regulatory requirements.

Skills

HashiCorp Vault

CyberArk PAM

Privileged access management

Credential management

Automation

Scripting

Linux administration

Windows administration

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree (Required)

Tools

CyberArk PAM

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

PNC is seeking a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Engineer to design, implement, and operate CyberArk PAM and HashiCorp Vault across hybrid environments. The role emphasizes least privilege, secure credential rotation, API integrations, and automation to reduce hard-coded credentials.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, Security Operations, and Compliance teams to ensure secure business operations and audit readiness. Remote work may be approved in select locations.