PAM Engineer

This role is 100% remote and can sit anywhere in the USA. Role is a contract budgeted for 12 months with potential to extend or convert.
Brief Description
Top local financial client (banking/insurance) is looking for a Human Privileged Access SME with deep expertise in CyberArk and human-focused privileged access workflows. This role centers on securing, engineering, and governing human admin accounts - not service accounts - across Windows, Linux, AD, Mainframe, and hybrid cloud environments
Top Skills' Details
- demonstrated experience as a SME within Human Privileged Access SME
- ability to articulate deep expertise in CyberArk
- ability to articulate deep expertise in human-focused privileged access workflows.
Description
This role centers on securing, engineering, and governing human admin accounts - not service accounts - across Windows, Linux, AD, Mainframe, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Hands-on CyberArk experience managing human privileged accounts, including onboarding users, configuring entitlements, validating elevation paths, and ensuring correct safe/platform configurations.
- Strong understanding of human privileged access workflows, including approval routing, MFA enforcement, PSM/PSM-SSH access patterns, and break-glass procedures.
- Ability to identify and remediate human privileged access risks, such as excessive rights, misaligned RBAC, inconsistent admin paths, stale or redundant admin roles, and privilege sprawl.
- Deep familiarity with AD group models as they relate to human admin access, including nested groups, delegated admin roles, elevated AD permissions, and privileged role mappings.
- Experience supporting privilege-hygiene initiatives, especially reducing standing privileged access, and enabling request-based or JIT-style elevation patterns.
- Solid automation skills (PowerShell / REST API) to streamline human admin onboarding, entitlement checks, environment validation, and reporting (non-access-review).
Skills
Cyberark, Iam, Access, windows, linux, active directory, mainframe, Cloud, Access management
Top Skills Details
Cyberark,Iam,Access,windows,linux,active directory,mainframe,Cloud,Access management
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- **MUST HAVE great communication skills, as they will be coordinating and setting meetings with the business as part of the role as a SME**
- Experience working thru a CyberArk rollout while keeping oversight on the PAM risk issues in previous roles
Experience Level
Expert Level
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
Will have opportunity to have hands-on experience with a CyberArk rollout across a large Financial Institution (both banking and insurance at the same time). Also will provide opportunity to add to tool belt in terms of gaining more experience in influencing oversight on PAM risk issues across the association.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Dallas, TX.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $102.04/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Mar 11, 2026.
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We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.