Senior CyberArk Engineer

Senior Cyber Ark Engineer / Technical Lead

Location: Newark, NJ

Work Arrangement: Hybrid – approximately 3 days onsite per week

Employment Type: 12+ Month Contract-to-Hire

Our client is seeking a Senior Cyber Ark Engineer / Technical Lead to join their large enterprise cybersecurity and identity transformation program.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for engineering, implementing, administering, troubleshooting, and continuously improving a large-scale Cyber Ark Privileged Access Management (PAM) environment.

The ideal candidate will bring deep, enterprise-level Cyber Ark expertise and the ability to operate at both the engineering and technical-leadership levels. This person will work directly in the Cyber Ark platform, lead complex implementations, troubleshoot challenging PAM issues, establish engineering standards, mentor other engineers, and help shape the future direction of the organization's PAM capabilities.

This is not a purely architectural, governance, or strategy role
. The successful candidate must be comfortable working hands-on in Cyber Ark and driving technical initiatives from design through implementation and operational support.

• Design, configure, implement, administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Cyber Ark PAM solutions across a large enterprise environment.
• Lead the onboarding, management, and lifecycle administration of privileged accounts, service accounts, applications, servers, databases, and other privileged assets.
• Configure and manage Cyber Ark components, including Enterprise Password Vault (EPV), Privileged Session Manager (PSM), Privileged Account Security (PAS), safes, platforms, policies, authentication methods, and access workflows
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• Troubleshoot complex Cyber Ark, privileged-access, authentication, and session-management issues and provide hands-on technical support to engineering and security teams.
• Lead complex PAM implementations, integrations, migrations, upgrades, and enhancements through completion.
• Establish and maintain Cyber Ark engineering standards, configuration guidelines, operational procedures, and best practices.
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex Cyber Ark and privileged-access issues.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to junior and mid-level Cyber Ark engineers.
• Partner with IAM, Information Security, Infrastructure, Application, Cloud, Network, Database, and Operations teams to implement and support privileged-access solutions.
• Collaborate with SailPoint/IGA and SSO teams to integrate privileged access with identity governance, authentication, certification, and access-management processes.
• Develop and implement opportunities for automation, scalability, security improvements, and operational efficiency using scripting, APIs, and other engineering approaches.
• Participate in Cyber Ark architecture and design discussions while remaining actively involved in hands-on implementation and engineering.
• Help define and execute the technical roadmap for the organization's Cyber Ark/PAM environment.
• Support security incidents, root-cause analysis, remediation, and investigations involving privileged accounts and access.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, configurations, implementation procedures, operational runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Evaluate new Cyber Ark capabilities and recommend improvements based on enterprise security and operational requirements.

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, identity and access management, privileged access management, or infrastructure engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on Cyber Ark experience in a large enterprise environment.
• Deep experience…