CyberArk Technical Lead
Technical Lead - Infrastructure & Security (6-Month Contract)
Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid)
Contract Length: 6 Months
Sector: Global Banking / Financial Services
A leading global bank is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join its Infrastructure & Security function on an initial 6-month contract, based in Edinburgh with hybrid working arrangements. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can combine deep technical expertise with the ability to guide and coordinate a team through complex infrastructure and security initiatives.
Key Responsibilities- Provide technical leadership across infrastructure and security work streams, ensuring solutions align with the bank's architecture and security standards
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise firewall estates, ensuring robust perimeter and internal segmentation controls
- Lead on CyberArk implementation, configuration, and ongoing management, including privileged access management (PAM) best practices
- Act as a senior technical escalation point for infrastructure and security incidents, driving root cause analysis and remediation
- Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure meets regulatory and internal policy requirements
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers within the team
- Produce clear technical documentation, run-books, and architecture diagrams
- Support audits and assurance activities relating to infrastructure security controls
- Strong background in infrastructure engineering within large, complex enterprise environments (ideally financial services or another regulated industry)
- Proven hands-on experience with firewall technologies (e.g., Palo Alto, Check Point, Cisco) - design, deployment, and troubleshooting
- Demonstrable expertise in CyberArk (PAM/PSM/CPM) implementation and administration
- Solid understanding of security principles, including network segmentation, access control, and threat mitigation
- Experience operating in a technical lead capacity - able to guide technical direction and support delivery teams
- Strong stakeholder communication skills, comfortable liaising with security, risk, and compliance functions
- Experience working within a regulated or highly governed environment is highly desirable
- Duration: 6 months (with potential to extend depending on business need)
- Working Pattern: Hybrid - combination of on-site presence in Edinburgh and remote working
- Rate: Competitive, dependent on experience (inside IR35)
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.