PAM Technical Specialist

Location: Ansty

Cadent Gas Ltd

  Job Purpose    

 As a PAM Technical Specialist at Cadent, you'll play a vital role in supporting and developing our Privileged Access Management (PAM) capability across cloud, on-premise and hybrid technology environments. Working across both Infrastructure  and Operational Technology (OT) environments, you'll help ensure privileged access is secure, controlled and compliant with regulatory and security requirements.

This is a highly technical specialist role where you'll provide hands-on expertise across Cadent’s Cyber Ark estate and evolve the function. You’ll support privileged credential management, session brokering, password rotation, access workflows, onboarding and audit controls. You’ll work with multiple teams to strengthen security controls while enabling operational teams to work effectively.  

From reducing standing privilege and improving visibility of privileged activity through to supporting disaster recovery, platform roadmaps and design assurance, you'll play a key role in helping Cadent deliver a secure, resilient and auditable privileged access service.

Key Responsibilities

This role offers the opportunity to work at the heart of Cadent’s cyber security and operational technology landscape.

Security-Critical Impact – Help protect privileged access across business-critical, operational and mission-critical systems.

Cyber Ark Ownership – Take ownership of key Cyber Ark services and capabilities across both self-hosted and cloud environments.

Technical Variety – Work across cloud, infrastructure, identity, security monitoring, ITSM and operational technology environments.

Strategic Influence – Contribute to PAM roadmaps, architectural decisions and Technology Design Authority reviews.

Security & Compliance Focus – Support regulatory requirements, audit activities and industry security frameworks.

Operational Resilience – Help deliver secure disaster recovery capabilities and strengthen the resilience of critical access services.

     Skills and Experience    

Qualifications & Experience

Degree in Computing, Cyber Security, Information Technology or equivalent experience  
Ability to provide technical guidance to operational teams, architects and project stakeholders  
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills  
Experience supporting architecture reviews and design governance activities  
Ability to translate complex security concepts into clear business language  
ITIL Foundation certification  
Cyber Ark certification such as Defender, Sentry or equivalent highly desirable    

Privileged Access Management Expertise

Strong hands-on experience supporting and administering Cyber Ark Privileged Access Management solutions  
Experience supporting privileged account onboarding, credential management, password rotation and session control  
Strong understanding of least privilege, Zero Trust, privileged access governance and segregation of duties  
Experience implementing and maintaining Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) frameworks    

Cyber Ark Technical Expertise

Experience supporting technologies such as:

Cyber Ark Vault  
Cyber Ark Privileged Access Management (PAM)  
Cyber Ark Privilege Cloud  
Cyber Ark Secure Infrastructure Access  
Cyber Ark Secure Cloud Access  
Cyber Ark Secure Web Sessions    

Identity & Cloud Knowledge

Strong understanding of Active Directory and Entra   
Experience integrating PAM solutions with identity providers, MFA, federation and directory services  
Knowledge of Azure, AWS and cloud administration controls  
Experience integrating PAM platforms with ITSM and SIEM solutions    

Security & Operational Experience

Experience supporting audits, access reviews and compliance activities  
Understanding of privileged session recording, log management and security monitoring  
Experience troubleshooting authentication, access, credential and integration issues  
Knowledge of disaster recovery, operational resilience and business continuity principles