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In a rapidly changing IT environment, clients from all industries look to us for trusted solutions for their increasingly complex risks and vulnerabilities. As a part of our digital identity (DI) and privileged access management (PAM) teams you’ll be right at the heart of that goal, helping clients gain insight and context to their complex PAM environments and assessing, improving, and building infrastructure, processes and policies in order to meet the client’s current and next generation PAM needs. You’ll get to use your technical and business skills in order to help us drive this mission and have an impact on cyber security at a global level.  

*The opportunity  *

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior to be responsible for leading projects or elements of multiple client engagements including service delivery, business development, and related activities.  

You’ll work alongside respected industry professionals, learning about and using the latest tools and techniques to identify and overcome some of the most relevant and pressing security issues in the world.  

Your key responsibilities  

Our digital identity and PAM services assist our clients in aligning security management strategy with business goals by managing who has access to which resources and services, as well as enforcing business, privacy, and security policies. Supported by our strategic alliances with third-party vendors, our experienced professionals can provide broad services including: strategy, assessment, testing, and implementation of PAM solutions. Based on your existing experience, knowledge and ambitions, you could have the opportunity to gain experience across a number of our PAM teams, assessing and delivering foundational components of our services.

Within the privileged access management team, you’ll work in the following areas:

• Current state privileged access management assessments

• Capability maturity and benchmarking assessments

• Developing PAM strategy and road maps

• Target operating model and governance

• PAM policies, procedures, and standards

• Vendor analysis and assessments

• Design and architecture for PAM transformation.

• PAM Process and policies design and re-engineering

• Implementation, expansion, and integrations

• PAM solution migrations

• Discovery, remediation and onboarding of privileged accounts and secrets

• Operation process automation

Skills and attributes for success

• Effectively lead and motivate client engagement teams and provide technical leadership in the assessment, design, and implementation of security and IT risk solutions

• Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment. Play an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the firm

• Consistently deliver quality client services. Drive high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes and assist with business development opportunities.

• Use knowledge of the current IT environment and industry trends to identify engagement and client service issues, and communicate this information to the engagement team and client management through written correspondence and verbal presentations. Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.

To qualify for the role, you must have.

• A bachelor's degree in a related field and approximately 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience

• Experience in one or more of the following:

• Privileged access management solutions including design or implementation of PAM technologies (such as CyberArk,BeyondTrust, Delinea, HashiCorp);

• Role-based access control including design and development of user access roles.

• Experience in secret management solutions including understanding of DevOps (Ansible, Jenkins, Gitlab, Kubernetes, terraforms) and cloud (Azure, AWS and GCP) solutions sets.

• Ability in Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems

• Exposure to the IGA solutions (SailPoint or Saviynt)

• Exposure to the scripting and programming languages (PowerShell, Java, C#) and Microsoft office (word and PowerPoint, Visio)

• An understanding of access control concepts including directory services, SAML, LDAP, PKI

• Experience in process definition, workflow design, and process mapping.

• A valid driver's license in the US and a valid passport required; willingness and ability to travel internationally and a willingness to travel; travel is estimated at 40-60%

Ideally, you’d also have

• Strong presentation and communication skills and ability to speak with director and VP levels.

• CISSP, CISM, CISA, CIPT, CIPM, CRISC or other relevant certification desired; non-certified hires are required to become certified within 1 year from the date of hire.

• CyberArk,BeyondTrust, Delinea, HashiCorp, vendor certifications are desired.

*What we look for  *

We’re interested in intellectually curious people with a genuine passion for cyber security. With your broad exposure across PAM, we’ll turn to you to speak up with innovative new ideas that could make a lasting difference not only to us – but also to the industry as a whole. If you have the confidence in both your presentation and technical abilities to grow into a leading expert here, this is the role for you.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The salary range for this job in most geographic locations in the US is $100,800 to $184,800. The salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $121,000 to $210,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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