Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PNC is a financial services company focused on delivering strong customer experiences and managing business risk. The Privileged Access Management (PAM) Engineer will engineer, integrate, operate, and secure privileged access and secrets management platforms, primarily CyberArk PAM and HashiCorp Vault. The role will support hybrid infrastructure and cloud environments, automate access management, troubleshoot incidents, and partner with engineering, security, infrastructure, DevOps, and compliance teams.
Responsibilities
- Operate and support day to day Privileged Access Management services, ensuring secure and reliable privileged access
- Manage onboarding, modification, and decommissioning of privileged accounts
- Troubleshoot and resolve PAM related incidents, access issues, and platform errors
- Ensure PAM services meet availability, performance, and operational support expectations
- Serve as the primary technical engineer and platform owner for CyberArk PAM
- Onboard privileged accounts, systems, and platforms into CyberArk
- Configure credential vaulting, rotation policies, access workflows, and session recording
- Implement approval workflows and controls for administrative and emergency access
- Partner with infrastructure and application teams to integrate servers, databases, and platforms into PAM
- Monitor and maintain CyberArk components, connectors, and job health
- Engineer and operate enterprise secrets management using HashiCorp Vault
- Implement secure storage, access control, and rotation of application and infrastructure secrets
- Integrate Vault with CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, and runtime environments
- Support dynamic secrets, short lived credentials, and non-human identity use cases
- Partner with development teams to adopt secure secrets management patterns
- Integrate PAM solutions with on prem, hybrid, and cloud environments
- Support API based integrations and automation for privileged access and secrets usage
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to reduce hard coded credentials and manual processes
- Improve onboarding speed and consistency through automation and standardization
- Monitor PAM health, usage, and access activity
- Analyze trends and issues to improve reliability and reduce operational risk
- Maintain PAM technical documentation, standards, and operational runbooks
- Identify and implement improvements to strengthen privileged access controls and scalability
- Support audit and compliance activities related to privileged access and secrets management
- Produce reports and evidence for access usage, approvals, and session activity
- Assist with remediation of policy violations or audit findings
- Ensure privileged access controls align with least privilege and regulatory requirements
- Provides subject matter expertise when applying security concepts. Leverages technical knowledge and industry experience to design, build, and maintain technology solutions. Responsible for deliverables related to project timelines
- Responsible for working with architecture to take high level architectural designs and determine the specifics around implementation details (ex: sizing) integration details, onboarding and operationalization
- Evaluates patches, updates, and ongoing maintenance. Determines impacts to existing solutions when new standards are implemented. Utilizes change control and other governance processes to ensure alignment of solutions
- Develops detailed implementation, configuration, design, and engineering documentation. Build and implement solutions
- Works with operational partners to enable transition and day-to-day supportability
- Provides engineering support to existing technology in a production environment and collaborating with other groups as required. Seeks opportunities to grow a broad knowledge base to complement specific subject matter expertise
Skills
- · Hands‑on experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management
- · Strong understanding of privileged access risks, least privilege, and credential management
- · Experience integrating PAM solutions across servers, databases, applications, and cloud platforms
- · Familiarity with Linux and Windows administration, scripting, and automation
- · Experience operating in regulated or audited environments (PCI DSS, SOC 2, SOX, HIPAA, etc.)
- · Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem‑solving skills
- · Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- This position may be eligible for remote work in select geographic locations, subject to approval by PNC
- If approved, work must be conducted from a quiet, secure, and confidential home-based workspace
- Occasional in-office participation may be required based on business needs
- PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position
- Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience
- In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered
- Bachelors (Required)
Benefits
- Medical/prescription drug coverage with a Health Savings Account feature
- Dental and vision options
- Employee and spouse/child life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability protection
- 401(k) with PNC match
- Pension plan
- Stock purchase plan
- Dependent care reimbursement account
- Back-up child/elder care
- Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
- Educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
- A robust wellness program with financial incentives
- Maternity and/or parental leave, depending on eligibility
- Up to 11 paid holidays each year, depending on eligibility
- 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
- Between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level and years of service
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