Associate Principal, Privileged Access Management; CyberArk

Job Overview

Enterprise Technology is a global organization within Transamerica. We provide dedicated application support to Transamerica, and we bring all of Aegon’s business units together through the use of technology. We provide the backbone – the infrastructure – for how everything works. We’re creating the company’s AI environment, building a flexible ‘cloud experience’ for internal hosting services, designing frameworks for data governance and management, and ensuring the security and stability of the company’s technology.

In short, we enable the business units to move more quickly and deliver to our clients in the best possible way.

• Design, configure, install, integrate, and maintain our PAM solutions (Cyber Ark) across the enterprise environments.
• Provide solutions to effectively manage human, non‑human, vendor, contractor, service, application, and cloud privileged accounts.
• Provide subject matter expertise to our business partners on how to manage privileged accounts while acting as an advocate for Enterprise Technology (ET) and our overall Security platform.
• Work closely with PAM Engineering to identify improvements and troubleshoot incidents as they arise.
• Assist with troubleshooting privileged access related issues across the enterprise environment.
• Assist with shifting cultural change toward a centralized security management program.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Lead large initiatives in driving the PAM environment changes, including presenting and influencing at the senior levels in the organization.
• Ensure the PAM program will have the required characteristics to support various regulations and standards such as SOX, NYDFS, NIST, and SOC.
• Create and present various material related to the PAM program at the executive level (e.g., architectural diagrams, program roadmaps, business cases).

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related degree, or equivalent education/experience.
• 10+ years of experience managing privileged access and integrating with platforms such as LDAP, Windows/UNIX, databases, network devices, and applications.
• Expert knowledge of Windows, Linux, and Mainframe systems, and how accounts and access are managed across the environments.
• 3+ years of experience scripting automation tasks.
• Experience creating, managing, and training customers about safes, vaults, session management, key managers, credential providers, platforms, and secrets management.
• Behavioral and leadership competencies:
  Commitment, Interpersonal Skills, Learning Aptitude, Critical Thinking, Resourcefulness, Tolerance of Ambiguity.
• Preferred:
  Extensive experience with Cyber Ark On‑Premise solutions (CCP, CP, Alero, Secrets Hub, PSM, Conjur) and certification (Sentry/Guardian) on the Cyber Ark platform.
• Knowledge of IAM, network architecture, and security concepts.
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum framework and in Dev Sec Ops .
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• 12+ years of experience in IT/Security.

This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our core locations (Cedar Rapids, Denver). May require some international travel (