Mastech Digital Inc. (NYSE: MHH) is a minority-owned, publicly traded IT staffing and digital transformation services company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, and established in 1986, we serve clients nationwide through 11 U.S. offices.
Role: PAM Architect
Location: Westlake, TX/Boston, MA/Merrimack, NH
Duration: Full-Time/W2
Job Type: Hybrid (50% remote, 50% on-site)
Job Description
The Privileged Access Management (PAM) Architect will be responsible for designing the PAM architecture strategy for Cybersecurity. This role demands deep expertise in workload access controls, secrets management, and a solid grasp of frameworks such as SPIFFE and SPIRE. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience with PAM tools, including CyberArk, Delinea, HashiCorp Vault, and Microsoft Entra ID, ensuring the security and compliance of the organisation's IT infrastructure. Although this is an individual contributor role, strong leadership and influencing skills are crucial to drive initiatives and collaborate effectively across the organisation.
- Develop a comprehensive PAM architecture strategy that aligns with organisational objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Lead the design and contribute to the development and deployment of PAM solutions, focusing on workload access controls and secrets management.
- Supply to the implementation and management of secrets management solutions, ensuring the secure storage, access, and rotation of privileged credentials.
- Apply frameworks like SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone) and SPIRE (SPIFFE Runtime Environment) to establish secure, scalable, and standardised workload identities.
- Leverage PAM tools such as CyberArk, Delinea Secret Server, HashiCorp Vault, and Microsoft Entra ID to enhance security measures and streamline access management processes.
- Design PAM policies, standards, and procedures to ensure consistent and secure management of privileged accounts. Ensure PAM practices align with organisational policies and regulatory requirements.
- Assess the effectiveness of PAM controls, making data-driven decisions to reduce risk and enhance security posture.
- Collaborate with technology and business partners to identify and mitigate risks associated with privileged access.
- Stay ahead with emerging trends and technologies in PAM and cybersecurity driving enhancements to existing solutions.
- The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 10+ years of experience in defining and delivering cybersecurity architecture, strategies and solutions with demonstrated experience in the financial services industry or other highly regulated sectors.
- Bachelor's degree in information security, computer science, or a related field; a master's degree is preferred.
- Strong industry experience in architecting and designing PAM solutions and deployment across the enterprise.
- Deep technical understanding of PAM capabilities, controls and security technologies in areas related to identity and access management to address privilege-based risk.
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements related to PAM, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, or GDPR.
- Expertise with build vs. buy solution options.
- Working knowledge and experience with cloud architectures and the ability to address the security considerations of secure cloud computing, including IAM with enterprise services, SSDLC, data protection, cryptography and key management.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Relevant certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) are highly desirable.
Required Skills:
- Architected for PAM solutions (immediate: secrets management deployment using Hashi Vault) that is enterprise scale
- understand and established SME to drive a need to secure legacy needs and be the change agent to adopt modern secrets management capabilities – ephemeral secrets, machine identity, rotate secrets and patterns to drive adoption
- Understand the use cases that depend on PAM / non-interactive credentials
Special Instructions
- New PAM (Privileged Access Management) Security Architect role in Architecture and Engineering Business Unit. Specifically supporting the Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture.
Notes/Skills about the role:
- They need a minimum of 10 years of architecture experience and someone who has recent experience working with Secrets Management (Hashi Vault)
- Looking for a true architect, someone who can look at a problem, how they can address the problem, and map it out. Someone is an agent of change and patience.
