Principal Architect SME - CyberArk

Jazz Solutions Inc; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jazz Solutions Inc. is seeking a CyberArk Principal Architect to lead the architecture, deployment, and operations of an enterprise PAM environment across on‑premises and cloud.

This role supports a large federal customer with a multi-tenant CyberArk setup hosted in AWS GovCloud / FedRAMP High. The candidate will collaborate with cybersecurity, ICAM, cloud, and operations teams to meet NIST RMF, FISMA, and DR objectives while ensuring high availability and security postures across diverse

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years cybersecurity/IAM with 7+ years CyberArk PAM engineering/architecture.
• Expert knowledge of CyberArk PAS/PAM components and enterprise integrations.
• Experience architecting CyberArk in large, regulated federal or AWS/cloud environments.
• Experience with PIV/MFA/SSO, privileged access controls, audit logging, and 24x7 operations.
• Ability to lead complex troubleshooting, solution design, and mentoring/knowledge transfer.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal technical authority for CyberArk PAM architecture, engineering, and operations.
• Architect and oversee CyberArk vault, CPM, PSM, PVWA, safes, and lifecycle management.
• Design and maintain multi-tenant privileged access across Windows, Linux, mainframes, databases, and cloud environments.
• Lead HA/DR architecture and ensure RTO/RPO objectives and downtime requirements.
• Integrate CyberArk with SailPoint/TCCM/Identity Security Cloud and with Splunk, CloudTrail, ITSM, and monitoring services.
• Provide leadership for CyberArk security features, runbooks, and knowledge transfer to Federal personnel.
• Evaluate CyberArk changes for security, performance, and operational impact.

Skills

Cybersecurity expertise

IAM experience

Mentoring/leadership

Strong communication

Agile/Scrum/ITIL

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity/Engineering/IS

CyberArk certification

CISSP/CCSP/AWS certification

Tools

CyberArk PAS

CyberArk Vault/CPM/PSM/PVWA

SailPoint/TCCM/Identity Security Cloud

Job description

About the Organization JSL delivers customer-centric IT solutions for Federal, State and local governments. We offer our customers three distinct advantages: expertise in our service offerings, leadership that drives innovation, and a culture focused on customer satisfaction. Our mission is to cultivate relationships, responsibility and results through people, purpose and process.

Hybrid Role - Ability to travel 20-40%, on average, to the DC area based on frequency of client meetings and level of project engagement required.

Position Summary:

The CyberArk Principal Architect / Privileged Access Management (PAM) SME will serve as the senior technical authority for the architecture, implementation, integration, security, and operation of an enterprise CyberArk PAM environment supporting a large federal customer. The individual will provide architectural leadership for a highly available, multi-tenant CyberArk environment hosted within AWS GovCloud / FedRAMP High, supporting privileged access across on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

The Principal Architect will work with cybersecurity, ICAM, cloud, infrastructure, application, and operations teams to ensure the PAM solution meets federal security requirements, availability objectives, disaster recovery requirements, and operational SLAs.

Specific Duties to Perform / General Position Description:

• Serve as the principal technical authority for CyberArk TCPAM/PRIVMGMT and CyberArk PAS architecture, engineering, operations, and solution enhancements.
• Architect and oversee CyberArk vault, CPM, PSM, PVWA, privileged account lifecycle, safes, reconciliation, recertification, break-glass, backup/restore, DR, certificate renewal, and platform scaling.
• Design and maintain multi-tenant bureau segregation and privileged access across Windows, *nix, mainframes, network devices, databases, and cloud environments.
• Ensure PIV IAL3/AAL3 primary authentication, SSO integration, privileged-session recording/playback, audit logging, and password/passphrase controls.
• Lead HA/DR architecture across AWS Availability Zones and support RTO/RPO objectives and CyberArk maximum tolerable downtime requirements.
• Integrate CyberArk with SailPoint/TCCM/Identity Security Cloud for PRIV/MUR data and with Splunk, CloudTrail, ITSM, and monitoring/security services.
• Provide technical leadership for CyberArk Secure Web Sessions, EPM policy, Conjur secrets management, and Ansible automation where activated.
• Lead Tier 3 troubleshooting, architecture reviews, RCA, security patching, vulnerability remediation, technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer.
• Design and maintain secure privileged account management across Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, network devices, mainframes, applications, cloud platforms, service accounts, and non-person entities (NPEs).
• Establish PAM architecture standards, patterns, technical baselines, engineering procedures, and security configuration standards.
• Troubleshoot complex CyberArk issues and lead technical root-cause analysis (RCA) for high-priority incidents.
• Develop and validate CyberArk monitoring, alerting, logging, and audit capabilities and integration with enterprise monitoring/SIEM platforms.
• Support cybersecurity and authorization activities including NIST 800-53/RMF, FISMA, FedRAMP High, POA&M remediation, vulnerability remediation, audit requests, and penetration testing.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to CyberArk engineers and administrators and support structured knowledge transfer to Federal personnel.
• Evaluate proposed CyberArk changes and enhancements for security, architectural fit, performance, availability, and operational impact.

Position Qualifications/Experience/Education:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; 10+ years of cybersecurity/IAM experience with 7+ years of deep CyberArk PAM engineering/architecture experience.
• Expert knowledge of CyberArk PAS/PAM components including Vault, CPM, PSM, PVWA, safes, account onboarding/reconciliation, session management, HA/DR, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience architecting CyberArk in large, highly regulated federal or comparable enterprise environments and AWS/cloud-hosted environments.
• Experience with PIV/MFA/SSO, privileged access controls, audit logging, FISMA/RMF, vulnerability remediation, and 24x7 production operations.
• Ability to lead complex troubleshooting, solution design, technical reviews, and mentoring/knowledge transfer.
• CyberArk technical certification(s) appropriate to senior architecture/engineering responsibilities required or strongly preferred.
• Prior experience serving as a CyberArk Architect, Principal Architect, or Lead PAM Engineer for a federal agency.

Desired Qualifications:

• Recent federal delivery experience supporting CyberArk PAM in a managed-service environment.
• Experience with large CyberArk deployments.
• Experience with Conjur, EPM, SWS, Ansible, Splunk, AWS GovCloud, and FIPS 140-2/140-3 HSM solutions.
• CISSP, CCSP, or AWS certification.

Competencies:

• Strong communicator able to work effectively with federal agency stakeholders, bureau teams, technical teams, and vendors.
• Highly organized and outcome-focused; able to manage competing priorities in a 24x7 managed-service environment.
• Proactive problem-solver who can operate with limited direction and drive issues through resolution.
• Comfortable in Agile/Scrum/Kanban and ITIL-aligned environments with disciplined change, incident, and problem management.
• Adaptable to changing BPA Call priorities, security requirements, and SLA-driven delivery.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate architecture and security concepts to Government technical and management stakeholders.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentoring to CyberArk engineers and administrators.

EOE Statement In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Jazz Solutions Inc., please call 410-905-5084 or e-mail [e-mail]. Jazz Solutions Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds with varying levels of experience who have a desire to do meaningful work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, color, gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

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