Privileged Access Management (PAM) Identity Lead

Peraton; Lacey (WA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Privileged Access Management Identity Lead to design, implement, and continuously improve enterprise identity security and PAM capabilities. You will establish and enforce controls protecting privileged accounts, credentials, service accounts, and sensitive access across on-premises and cloud environments.

The role requires leading PAM strategy, engineering teams, and driving secure, scalable identity solutions with strong emphasis on least-privilege and incident response.

Qualifications

• Must have a security clearance or ability to obtain Public Trust.
• Extensive PAM and identity security experience in federal or large enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of privileged access controls, credential vaulting, and session management.
• Experience implementing zero-trust and identity-centric security models.
• Strong understanding of SSO, identity federation, and access provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead PAM engineers and administrators and drive enterprise PAM strategy.
• Oversee lifecycle management of privileged accounts and credentials.
• Establish controls for privileged storage, session recording, and just-in-time access.
• Enforce least-privilege across admin, root, DB, cloud, and application accounts.
• Monitor privileged activities, respond to incidents, and drive platform upgrades.

Skills

PAM leadership

identity security

least privilege

MFA

session management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Associate's degree

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

CyberArk

BeyondTrust

Delinea

Job description

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.

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.