Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Identity Management - Hybrid

Genesis
10 is currently seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Identity Management for a hybrid position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Plano, TX and Pennington, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Identity Management is responsible for the reliability, security, and operational excellence of privileged identity and secrets management platforms, including Cyber Ark PAM and Cyber Ark Secrets Vault. This role blends hands-on engineering, operational leadership, and cybersecurity expertise, with a strong focus on applying SRE principles to identity services across on-premises and cloud environments. The SRE will design, implement, and operate highly available identity services, leading incident response, platform hardening, and remediation efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the senior technical SME for Cyber Ark PAM, Cyber Ark Secrets Vault, and enterprise secrets management platforms
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to identity platforms, including availability, scalability, resilience, and performance engineering
• Lead vulnerability remediation efforts for identity and PAM platforms, including configuration hardening, patching, and architectural improvements
• Identify, assess, and drive remediation or removal of non-permitted or non-standard identity technologies
• Design and maintain high availability and disaster recovery architectures for PAM and vault services
• Develop and maintain automation for provisioning, secrets rotation, access workflows, and operational tasks
• Implement and enhance monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for identity services
• Lead or support incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident improvements related to identity platforms
• Partner with Identity Engineering, Cyber Security, Cloud, and Application teams to embed reliability and security controls into solutions
• Contribute to standards, runbooks, operational documentation, and architectural guidance for identity services
• Support audits, risk assessments, and compliance initiatives related to privileged access and secrets management

Requirements:

• Extensive hands-on experience with Cyber Ark PAM (EPM, PSM, PSMSession, CPM, PVWA)
• Strong expertise in Cyber Ark and HASHI Secrets Vault and/or enterprise secrets management solutions
• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or senior production operations engineer
• Deep understanding of identity and access management (IAM), privileged access, and Tier 0 security concepts
• Experience operating identity platforms across on-premises and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong background in Linux/Unix systems, networking, and security fundamentals
• Expertise in automation and scripting (e.g., Python, Power Shell, Bash)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (logs, metrics, alerting)
• Strong incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills
• Ability to influence engineering teams and drive reliability improvements without direct authority
• Must adhere to a hybrid schedule requirement of a minimum of 3 days per week onsite

Desired skills:

• Experience with Hashi Secrets Vault, Cyber Ark
• Experience with cloud-native secrets services (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager)
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, ARM, Cloud Formation)
• Familiarity with Zero Trust and Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) concepts
• Experience supporting regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements related to IAM and PAM
• Knowledge of container and platform integrations (Kubernetes secrets, CI/CD pipelines)
• Prior experience in large-scale enterprise or regulated environments
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills

Pay range: $58.31 - $66.31 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis
10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis
10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis
10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

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10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis
10:

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  10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis
  10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis
  10 for years.
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