Senior CyberArk PAM Engineer & Tech Lead

Gotham Technology Group; Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Gotham Technology Group in Newark, NJ seeks a Senior CyberArk Engineer / Technical Lead to design, implement and operate a large CyberArk PAM environment in a hands-on leadership role.

You will mentor engineers, lead complex PAM projects, collaborate with IAM, Security, and Ops teams, and drive standards, automation, and operational excellence.

This contract-to-hire engagement is hybrid with ~3 days onsite weekly and requires 7+ years in cybersecurity and 5+ years CyberArk experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, identity and access management, privileged access management, or infrastructure engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on CyberArk experience in a large enterprise environment.
• Deep experience implementing, configuring, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting CyberArk PAM.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale privileged account and service-account onboarding.
• Strong understanding of Privileged Access Management, identity security, authentication, authorization, credential management, session management, and least-privilege principles.
• Hands-on experience supporting privileged access across enterprise servers, applications, databases, infrastructure, and service accounts.
• Experience troubleshooting complex CyberArk and PAM issues independently, including the ability to perform root-cause analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical implementations and initiatives from design through production.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical direction within an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, implement, administer, maintain, and troubleshoot CyberArk PAM solutions across a large enterprise environment.
• Lead the onboarding, management, and lifecycle administration of privileged accounts, service accounts, applications, servers, databases, and other privileged assets.
• Configure and manage CyberArk components, including Enterprise Password Vault (EPV), Privileged Session Manager (PSM), Privileged Account Security (PAS), safes, platforms, policies, authentication methods, and access workflows.
• Troubleshoot complex CyberArk, privileged-access, authentication, and session-management issues and provide hands-on technical support to engineering and security teams.
• Lead complex PAM implementations, integrations, migrations, upgrades, and enhancements through completion.
• Establish and maintain CyberArk engineering standards, configuration guidelines, operational procedures, and best practices.
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex CyberArk and privileged-access issues.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to junior and mid-level CyberArk engineers.
• Partner with IAM, Information Security, Infrastructure, Application, Cloud, Network, Database, and Operations teams to implement and support privileged-access solutions.
• Collaborate with SailPoint/IGA and SSO teams to integrate privileged access with identity governance, authentication, certification, and access-management processes.
• Develop and implement opportunities for automation, scalability, security improvements, and operational efficiency using scripting, APIs, and other engineering approaches.
• Participate in CyberArk architecture and design discussions while remaining actively involved in hands-on implementation and engineering.
• Help define and execute the technical roadmap for the organization's CyberArk/PAM environment.
• Support security incidents, root-cause analysis, remediation, and investigations involving privileged accounts and access.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, configurations, implementation procedures, operational runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Evaluate new CyberArk capabilities and recommend improvements based on enterprise security and operational requirements.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Education

CyberArk Defender/Sentry/Trustee certifications

Tools

CyberArk PAM

EPV

PSM

PAS

Job description

Gotham Technology Group in Newark, NJ seeks a Senior CyberArk Engineer / Technical Lead to design, implement and operate a large CyberArk PAM environment in a hands-on leadership role.

You will mentor engineers, lead complex PAM projects, collaborate with IAM, Security, and Ops teams, and drive standards, automation, and operational excellence.

This contract-to-hire engagement is hybrid with ~3 days onsite weekly and requires 7+ years in cybersecurity and 5+ years CyberArk experience.