Senior Privileged Access & Identity Lead (Remote)

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Paid time off

Company holidays

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Identity Lead to spearhead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise identity security and PAM capabilities. This role focuses on protecting privileged accounts, credentials, and service identities across on-premises and cloud environments.

Remote position with hours 8am–5pm EST. You will lead strategy, lifecycle management, least-privilege enforcement, and CyberArk-driven password rotation and session controls

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain the required Public Trust clearance.
• Extensive experience implementing and managing enterprise PAM solutions with CyberArk.
• Strong understanding of privileged account security, credential vaulting, password rotation, session management, MFA, and least-privilege principles.

Responsibilities

• 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 leveraging CyberArk to manage privileged credentials and sessions, enforce least-privilege access and automate password rotation, and strengthen identity security controls across enterprise infrastructure and cloud environments.

Skills

Leadership

Security awareness

Zero trust

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or related field

CISSP or equivalent certification

Tools

CyberArk

SSO

MFA

Cloud IAM

Identity governance

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Identity Lead to spearhead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise identity security and PAM capabilities. This role focuses on protecting privileged accounts, credentials, and service identities across on-premises and cloud environments.

Remote position with hours 8am–5pm EST. You will lead strategy, lifecycle management, least-privilege enforcement, and CyberArk-driven password rotation and session controls