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About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management
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The Senior CyberArk PAM Engineer joins the PAM Engineering team to lead day-to-day operations and support for the enterprise Privileged Access Management environment. This senior technical role ensures the stability, security, and performance of the CyberArk platform, serving as a primary escalation point for complex issues. Responsibilities include monitoring platform health, performing root-cause analysis, executing maintenance, and managing disaster recovery testing. The engineer will support integrations across Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, and cloud services while developing automation using PowerShell, Python, and REST APIs. Key technical requirements include deep knowledge of Vault, PVWA, CPM, PSM, PTA, AAM, Secrets Manager, and Conjur. The role focuses on solving privileged access, secrets management, and high availability challenges within a complex enterprise infrastructure to maintain reliable security controls.
Provide advanced operational support for the CyberArk PAM environment, including Vault, PVWA, CPM, PSM, and Secrets Manager.
Monitor platform health, performance, and capacity while proactively identifying and resolving operational alerts.
Lead the resolution of complex incidents and perform root-cause analysis to drive long-term technical fixes.
Troubleshoot onboarding, authentication, connectivity, password management, and application integration issues.
Execute platform maintenance, including configuration changes, upgrades, patching, certificate renewals, and disaster recovery testing.
Develop automation using PowerShell, Python, and REST APIs to reduce manual work and improve reliability.
Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and recovery procedures to support risk, audit, and compliance requirements.
Serve as a senior escalation point providing technical guidance to team members on PAM operational issues.
What we're looking for
Must have 7+ years of hands-on experience with CyberArk or similar vaulting solutions in complex production environments.
Must possess deep knowledge of CyberArk technologies including Vault, PVWA, CPM, PSM, safes, platforms, accounts, policies, and access controls.
Must have strong troubleshooting experience across Windows, Linux/Unix, Active Directory, networking, certificates, databases, and application connectivity.
Must have experience supporting major incidents, root-cause analysis, production changes, upgrades, and disaster recovery or failover testing.
Must have experience with PowerShell and automation technologies such as Python or REST APIs.
Must have an understanding of privileged access, secrets management, high availability, disaster recovery, and security controls.
Must have experience working within structured incident, problem, change, and service-management processes.