Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Senior CyberArk PAM

Experience Required: 12+ Year

Location: Austin, TX (USA)

UST global/Applied Materials.

About the Role

• We are seeking an experienced Senior CyberArk PAM / HashiCorp Vault Engineer to join our cybersecurity engineering team.
• The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on expertise in Privileged Access Management (PAM), secret management, credential security, and enterprise identity security solutions.
• Strong experience with Hashi Corp Vault is mandatory, while experience with CyberArk PAM is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support HashiCorp Vault for enterprise secret management and credential protection.
• Deploy and manage CyberArk PAM solutions, including onboarding, access controls, credential rotation, and privileged account governance.
• Integrate Vault and PAM solutions with cloud platforms, applications, databases, and enterprise systems.
• Develop automation scripts and workflows for secrets management and privileged account lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, DevOps, and application teams to secure critical assets.
• Perform platform upgrades, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security assessments.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational procedures.

Required Skills

• 10-12+ years of overall IT experience with a strong focus on cybersecurity and identity/access management.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault administration, deployment, and integrations.
• Experience managing secrets, PKI, tokenization, encryption, and authentication methods within Vault.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, IAM, and privileged access management principles.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows server environments.
• Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience with CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.
• Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native security practices.
• Relevant certifications such as:
• HashiCorp Vault Associate
• CyberArk Defender/Sentry
• CISSP, Security+, or equivalent

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise security environments.
• Exposure to Zero Trust security frameworks.
• Experience with compliance standards such as SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or NIST