Principal Cyber Security Engineer

Overview

This is a remote position that can be hired in NC, AZ, VA, NJ, and TX. This person should possess strong analytical and technical problem‑solving skills as well as experience in the different phases of the system life cycle, to support multiple projects, develop standard operating procedures and perform day‑to‑day functional administration and support for Privileged Access Management (PAM). The engineer should have in‑depth experience in management of passwords/credentials (such as default accounts, service accounts, keys, etc.)

in PAM solutions.

• Support the deployment and integration of privileged account security solutions.
• Ability to discuss technical concepts and interdependencies with customers.
• Experience gathering high level functional and operational requirements.
• Experience developing and managing multiple system designs concurrently.
• Provide operation and maintenance of existing PAM solutions.
• Develop design documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and implementation/deployment plans for privileged account security solutions and identity governance solutions.
• Provide after‑hours and on‑call production support when required.
• Develop diagrams and documentation to support infrastructure configuration changes.
• Provide security tool enhancements and performance tuning to increase capability to support new requirements.
• Plan, test, and deploy firmware, software upgrades, and security fixes.

Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Network, or Information Security OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Network, or Information Security.

• Experience supporting PAM solutions (Cyber Ark, Hashi Corp, Delinea, etc.) in enterprise environment.
• Hands‑on Power Shell/Python or similar scripting experience.
• Ability to proficiently utilize SailPoint identity management system a plus.
• Proficiency with MS Visio, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Background in information security systems with specific knowledge around access control.
• Background in role‑based access control for privileged access.
• Hands‑on Windows 2019 or later Server administration experience.
• Hands‑on Active Directory and LDAP query experience.
• Functional understanding of TCP/IP networks and firewalls.
• Functional understanding of the following protocols: TCP, UDP, DNS, NetBIOS, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, SSL.
• Strong UNIX/Linux system administration experience.

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at