Security Senior Analyst - Identity Security Engineering

Elevance Health (Anthem); Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Elevance Health is seeking a Security Senior Analyst - Identity Security Engineering to design and operate identity controls across human, privileged, and cloud identities. The role focuses on CyberArk Idira EPM and supports PAM/PSM, RBAC/ABAC, and governance.

You will collaborate with IAM, Identity Governance, Cloud Security, and IT teams to automate, monitor, and improve secure access while meeting 24x7 service requirements. A bachelor’s degree and 3+ years in related roles are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; required.
• Minimum of 3 years in a support/ops or design/engineering role in access/security fields.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and operate CyberArk Idira EPM; policy design and application control.
• Support CyberArk PAM/PSM; manage privileged credentials and sessions.
• Translate requirements into RBAC/ABAC and time-bound access controls.
• Support identity governance processes: requests, approvals, provisioning, certification, revocation.
• Extend controls to workforce, privileged, service, and cloud identities; NHIs and agentic AI identities.
• Integrate CyberArk with ServiceNow, SailPoint, directories, CMDB, and cloud platforms.
• Automate discovery, entitlement analysis, telemetry, and audit evidence.
• Analyze telemetry and logs to detect misuse, gaps, or standing privilege.
• Develop testing plans, runbooks, and metrics; support incident investigations.

Skills

Identity Security

IAM

PAM

IGA

Access engineering

Security operations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CyberArk Idira EPM

CyberArk PAM/PSM

ServiceNow

SailPoint

Directories

CMDB

Cloud platforms

APIs

Job description

Anticipated End Date: 2026-09-18

Position Title: Security Senior Analyst - Identity Security Engineering

Security Senior Analyst - Identity Security Engineering

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 1 day per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Ideal candidates will be able to report to one of our Pulse Point locations in Indianapolis, IN or St. Louis, MO. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The Security Senior Analyst - Identity Security Engineering is responsible for engineering and operating identity security controls across human, privileged, non-human, cloud, and emerging agentic AI identities. The role has a primary focus on CyberArk Idira Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM), with supporting responsibilities across CyberArk PAM and PSM capabilities, and helps advance least privilege, Just-in-Time access, Zero Standing Privilege, software control, and privileged access governance. This role partners with IAM, Identity Governance, Cyber Security, Cloud Security, Infrastructure, ServiceNow, and application teams to design, automate, monitor, and continuously improve secure access while supporting operational, audit, compliance, and 24x7 service requirements.

How you will make an impact:

• Engineers and operates CyberArk Idira EPM, including policy design, application control, software-installation governance, temporary elevation, agent health, and troubleshooting.
• Supports CyberArk PAM and PSM capabilities, including privileged credentials, session controls, emergency access, and JIT/ZSP use cases.
• Translates business and security requirements into RBAC, ABAC, policy-based, risk-based, and time-bound access controls.
• Supports identity governance processes, including access requests, approvals, provisioning, certification, revocation, segregation of duties, and exception management.
• Extends identity security controls across workforce identities, privileged accounts, service and workload identities, NHIs, cloud identities, and agentic AI identities.
• Integrates CyberArk capabilities with ServiceNow, SailPoint, directories, CMDB, and cloud platforms using supported APIs and workflow automation.
• Automates identity discovery, directory queries, entitlement analysis, reconciliation, telemetry, reporting, and audit evidence using secure and supportable engineering practices.
• Analyzes telemetry, audit records, and identity security events to identify misuse, policy gaps, access drift, and opportunities to reduce standing privilege.
• Develops testing plans, operational procedures, runbooks, metrics, and audit evidence while supporting incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience that would provide the knowledge to perform such work.
• Experience must include a minimum of 3 years of experience in a support and operations or design and engineering role in any of the following areas: access management or network security technologies, servers, networks, network communications, telecommunications, operating systems, middleware, disaster recovery, collaboration technologies, hardware/software support or other infrastructure services role; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• Three to five years of experience in Identity Security, IAM, PAM, IGA, access engineering, or security operations preferred.
• Hands-on experience with CyberArk Idira EPM; familiarity with CyberArk PAM, PSM, Privilege Cloud, or related privileged access technology preferred.
• Strong understanding of least privilege, JIT access, ZSP, Zero Trust, privileged-access tiering, and Identity Threat Detection preferred.
• Experience applying RBAC, ABAC, policy-based access, risk-based access, and role or entitlement design preferred.
• Understanding of Identity Governance processes, including joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, access requests, certifications, segregation of duties, and exception governance preferred.
• Familiarity with NHI, workload, cloud, and agentic AI identities, including service accounts, secrets, certificates, and access controls in Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM, and Google Cloud preferred.
• Knowledge of IAM standards and protocols such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM, LDAP, Kerberos, and REST APIs preferred.
• Experience using scripting, query, workfl