Practice Lead, PAM

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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GuidePoint Security

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

GuidePoint Security is a cybersecurity firm offering consulting, engineering, and managed services to help organizations secure their digital assets. The company specializes in application security, cloud security, data protection, email security, threat intelligence, and identity and access management. With solutions tailored to various platforms including AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and OT environments, GuidePoint Security aims to enhance cybersecurity resilience for both enterprise and government clients. They focus on integrating advanced security technologies and providing expertise in risk assessment, compliance, and security awareness education, helping clients navigate complex cybersecurity challenges and improve their security posture.

📋 Description

• Own the overall PAM practice strategy, vision, roadmap, and growth across CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust, and other privileged identity technologies • Define and maintain service offerings, delivery methodologies, reference architectures, standards, and best practices • Provide strategic and technical leadership across PAM strategy, assessment, architecture, implementation, migration, transformation, and managed services engagements • Lead evaluation, design, and implementation of PAM solutions based on client requirements and business needs • Develop technology-agnostic architectures and platform recommendations • Establish and mature PAM capabilities across people, process, and technology • Lead PAM maturity assessments and create target-state architectures, transformation roadmaps, and implementation plans • Oversee complex on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and SaaS PAM implementations and migrations • Drive adoption of JIT access, Zero Standing Privileges, Zero Trust, machine identities, secrets management, DevOps integration, and cloud privileged access • Develop reusable accelerators, implementation frameworks, and delivery standards • Provide technical governance for large-scale PAM programs • Partner with IAM, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, application, DevOps, network, risk, compliance, and audit teams • Lead PAM architects, consultants, engineers, and analysts; provide coaching, mentoring, and career development • Support presales, solutioning, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, SOW development, estimation, and client presentations • Maintain relationships with PAM technology vendors and strategic partners • Monitor emerging technologies and market trends • Define and track KPIs, delivery metrics, quality standards, utilization, revenue, profitability, and customer satisfaction • Establish quality assurance and governance processes • Act as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders on privileged identity security and PAM transformation

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, IAM, PAM, or related security disciplines • 7+ years of experience in PAM • Hands-on and architectural experience with CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust, or other modern PAM platforms • Experience designing and implementing enterprise PAM architectures and operating models • Experience leading large-scale PAM transformation, implementation, migration, and modernization programs • Knowledge of privileged account discovery and onboarding, credential management and rotation, session management, JIT/JEA, Zero Standing Privileges, secrets management, application and machine identities, SSH keys and certificates, cloud privileged access, and DevOps/CI/CD integration • Understanding of IAM, Zero Trust, identity governance, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, SSO, and identity lifecycle management • Experience integrating PAM with Active Directory/LDAP, SIEM, ITSM, MFA, cloud platforms, databases, servers, network devices, applications, and DevOps toolchains • Understanding of NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, and applicable industry regulations • Experience leading technical teams and multidisciplinary security programs • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executives, security leaders, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders • Consulting, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills • Experience developing PAM strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, SOWs, proposals, estimates, and business cases • Ability to balance technical depth, business requirements, risk, cost, and operational considerations • Ability to use emerging technologies, including AI tools • Up to 25% travel • Sedentary work and ability to perform extensive computer-based work, including wrist, hand, finger, and visual activity for at least 8 hours daily • Preferred: PAM/IAM or cybersecurity certifications, Delinea/BeyondTrust training, secrets-management experience, cloud privileged access, PAM automation and APIs, managed services, consulting practice growth, presales/business development, vendor relationships, and emerging identity-security knowledge

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only) • Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA • GuidePoint pays 90% of employee PPO premiums and 70% of family PPO premiums • GuidePoint pays 100% of employee HDHP premiums and 75% of family HDHP premiums • HSA contributions of $850 annually for employees and $1,750 annually for families • Group Dental Insurance; GuidePoint pays 100% of employee premiums and 75% of family premiums • 12 corporate holidays • Flexible Time Off (FTO) program • Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance • Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment • Pet Benefit Option • Collaboration, mentorship, and guidance from knowledgeable colleagues