PAM Engineer
Cary, NC
Type: Permanent
Category: Security
Industry: Communications
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -092026-108707
Date Posted: 10/21/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/w39zr3
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Hybrid in Cary, NC
Our client seeks a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Engineer to strengthen privileged access security across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. You will engineer and support PAM solutions, reduce privileged access risk, and help advance Just-In-Time access, least privilege, and Zero Standing Privilege across the enterprise.
This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a salary up to $130K plus 10% bonus and yearly equity awards and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and support enterprise PAM solutions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
- Engineer privileged access capabilities including credential vaulting, password rotation, session management, privileged account onboarding, break-glass access, and account lifecycle management.
- Support Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP), Just-In-Time (JIT) access, least privilege, RBAC, and privileged access reduction initiatives.
- Secure privileged users, administrative accounts, service accounts, application identities, machine identities, and other non-human identities.
- Partner with infrastructure, cloud, application, and platform teams to onboard systems, applications, servers, databases, endpoints, and cloud resources into PAM platforms.
- Support Microsoft Entra ID capabilities including PIM, MFA, Conditional Access, and other access security controls.
- Develop and maintain privileged access standards, engineering runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Automate identity and privileged access processes using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, workflow automation, and platform integrations.
- Troubleshoot PAM platform issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Work with Security Operations and other teams to investigate privileged access risks, control gaps, and identity-related security incidents.
- Other duties as assigned.
Experience Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience with PAM, IAM, or identity security solutions in large enterprise environments.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience administering CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea, or an equivalent enterprise PAM platform. CyberArk is not required.
- Strong experience with credential vaulting, password rotation, privileged account onboarding, session management, and account lifecycle management.
- Experience with Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP), Just-In-Time (JIT) access, least privilege, RBAC, and break-glass access.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, PIM, MFA, Conditional Access, and Active Directory.
- Understanding of SSO, federation, authentication, and authorization technologies such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and LDAP.
- Experience with PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or workflow automation is preferred.
- Ability to assess privileged access risks, identify control gaps, and recommend remediation.
- Approximately 5% travel may be required.
Education Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
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