We are seeking a highly skilled PAM Engineer with proven experience in Delinea Secret Server, Server Suite, and Delinea Just Enough Privilege (JEP) to manage, support, and enhance our privileged access management environment. This role includes daily operational ownership of the Delinea platformperforming health checks, remediating system and credential management failures, and ensuring reliable credential rotation and vault operations. The PAM Engineer will partner with credential owners and application teams to transition statically managed credentials to dynamically managed credentials, improving security posture and operational consistency.

In addition, this role requires strong leadership characteristicsthe ability to lead and support a team through clear direction, collaboration, mentoring, and operational rigorwhile also remaining hands-on and capable of performing the core engineering tasks. The ideal candidate will support integrations, troubleshoot issues, collaborate across teams, and participate in an on-call rotation to maintain compliant and resilient PAM services.

Essential Responsibilities :

- Administer and maintain Delinea Secret Server, Server Suite, platform components, and Delinea Just Enough Privilege (JEP) to ensure stable and compliant operations.

- Perform daily health checks of the Delinea environment, validate job/rotation status, and ensure service availability and performance.

- Remediate platform issues and credential management failures (e.g., rotation/check-out failures), perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.

- Partner with credential owners and application teams to convert statically managed credentials into dynamically managed (vaulted and rotated) credentials.

- Integrate IT systems, applications, and network devices with the PAM vault, including databases, ServiceNow, and other enterprise platforms.

- Support the full lifecycle of privileged credentials, including onboarding, vaulting, rotation, access policies, and audit support.

- Leverage out-of-the-box Delinea integrations and customize configurations when required to meet business needs.

- Collaborate with security, network, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure secure connectivity, compliance, and successful onboarding.

- Provide on-call support to respond to incidents, outages, and urgent credential access/rotation issues.

- Apply patches and upgrades, monitor logs and system health, and optimize platform performance and reliability.

- Document configurations, integrations, operational procedures, and incident/root cause findings.

Leadership & Team Support Responsibilities (Added) :

- Lead by example as a hands-on engineer, actively performing PAM engineering tasks while setting standards for quality, security, and operational excellence.

- Provide day-to-day guidance and support to team members (prioritization, troubleshooting assistance, technical direction), ensuring timely resolution of platform and credential issues.

- Mentor and upskill peers on Delinea capabilities, integrations, troubleshooting practices, and credential lifecycle management.

- Coordinate work across stakeholders (security, infrastructure, network, application teams) to drive onboarding and remediation efforts to completion.

- Promote operational discipline, including runbooks, repeatable processes, incident response consistency, and continuous improvement through lessons learned/root cause reviews.

- Communicate effectively during incidents and escalations, helping drive clarity, accountability, and rapid restoration of service.

Required Skills/Knowledge :

- Bachelor's degree with Minimum 12+ Years of cybersecurity, 10+ Years in PAM & 5 years Delinea and in lieu of a degree 14+ years of relevant experience.

- Proven experience with Secret Server, Server Suite, Just Enough Privilege (JEP), and related PAM capabilities.

- Demonstrated experience performing operational support, including health checks, incident response, and remediation of credential rotation failures.

- Hands-on experience integrating systems such as databases, ServiceNow, and network devices with PAM vault solutions.

- Strong understanding of privileged credential lifecycle management, rotation concepts, and security best practices.

- Experience working with credential owners/application teams to migrate from static credentials to managed/rotating credentials.

- Familiarity with Delinea out-of-the-box integrations and customization/configuration options.

Experience with most or all of the following :

- Python (useful for cross-platform automation or CI/CD pipelines)

- SQL basics (reporting/queries if you interface with Secret Server DB via approved methodsoften API is preferred)

- CI/CD automation (Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitHub Actions) : storing scripts, approvals, secrets-handling patterns

- Windows & AD basics (service accounts, gMSA, LDAP concepts)

- Linux shell (Bash) if managing Unix credentials/endpoints

- PowerShell (preferred/primary) : Build and maintain automation for Delinea/Secret Server use cases, including REST API integration, JSON/data handling, modular scripting, logging, and robust error handling.

- Python : Cross-platform scripting and automation, including integration with CI/CD pipelines.

- SQL (basic to intermediate) : Support reporting and data analysis needs; familiarity with querying for operational/audit insights (API-first approach when applicable).

- CI/CD Automation : Experience using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions to version, test, and deploy scripts with appropriate approvals and secure secret-handling practices.

- Windows & Active Directory : Working knowledge of service accounts, gMSA, LDAP concepts, and permission/identity management fundamentals.

- Linux/Bash : Ability to automate administrative tasks on Linux systems (SSH, sudo, cron, file permissions).

Desired Characteristics :

- Willingness and availability to participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours support.

- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills; able to work effectively across teams and stakeholders.

- Demonstrated leadership characteristics : ability to lead and support a team through mentoring, coordination, clear communication, and ownership while remaining hands-on and able to execute core engineering responsibilities