Security Senior Analyst – Identity Security Engineering

Security Senior Analyst – Identity Security Engineering

Location:

This role requires associates to be in-office 1 day per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Ideal candidates will be able to report to one of our Pulse Point locations in Indianapolis, IN or St.

Louis, MO. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

The Security Senior Analyst – Identity Security Engineering is responsible for engineering and operating identity security controls across human, privileged, non-human, cloud, and emerging agentic AI identities. The role has a primary focus on Cyber Ark Idira Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM), with supporting responsibilities across Cyber Ark PAM and PSM capabilities, and helps advance least privilege, Just-in-Time access, Zero Standing Privilege, software control, and privileged access governance.

This role partners with IAM, Identity Governance, Cyber Security, Cloud Security, Infrastructure, Service Now, and application teams to design, automate, monitor, and continuously improve secure access while supporting operational, audit, compliance, and 24x7 service requirements.

How you will make an impact:

• Engineers and operates Cyber Ark Idira EPM, including policy design, application control, software-installation governance, temporary elevation, agent health, and troubleshooting.
• Supports Cyber Ark PAM and PSM capabilities, including privileged credentials, session controls, emergency access, and JIT/ZSP use cases.
• Translates business and security requirements into RBAC, ABAC, policy-based, risk-based, and time-bound access controls.
• Supports identity governance processes, including access requests, approvals, provisioning, certification, revocation, segregation of duties, and exception management.
• Extends identity security controls across workforce identities, privileged accounts, service and workload identities, NHIs, cloud identities, and agentic AI identities.
• Integrates Cyber Ark capabilities with Service Now, SailPoint, directories, CMDB, and cloud platforms using supported APIs and workflow automation.
• Automates identity discovery, directory queries, entitlement analysis, reconciliation, telemetry, reporting, and audit evidence using secure and supportable engineering practices.
• Analyzes telemetry, audit records, and identity security events to identify misuse, policy gaps, access drift, and opportunities to reduce standing privilege.
• Develops testing plans, operational procedures, runbooks, metrics, and audit evidence while supporting incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience that would provide the knowledge to perform such work.
• Experience must include a minimum of 3 years of experience in a support and operations or design and engineering role in any of the following areas: access management or network security technologies, servers, networks, network communications, telecommunications, operating systems, middleware, disaster recovery, collaboration technologies, hardware/software support or other infrastructure services role; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• Three to five years of experience in Identity Security, IAM, PAM, IGA, access engineering, or security operations preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Cyber Ark Idira EPM; familiarity with Cyber Ark PAM, PSM, Privilege Cloud, or related privileged access technology preferred.
• Strong understanding of least privilege, JIT access, ZSP, Zero Trust, privileged-access tiering, and Identity Threat Detection preferred.
• Experience applying RBAC, ABAC, policy-based access, risk-based access, and role or entitlement design preferred.
• Understanding of Identity Governance processes, including joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, access…