Principal - IAM Privileged Access and Identity Security

Job Summary

Job Purpose:

This is a hands-on engineering role responsible for delivering GSKs Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity Security capabilities.

This role will support the protection of privileged accounts, cloud administrative access, and machine identities. Working as a core subject matter expert of the IAM Privileged Access & Identity Security team, the successful candidate will help implement controls that reduce cyber risk and strengthen identity resilience.

About the team

IAM Privileged Access and Identity Security protects the accounts that can do the most damage. The team owns privileged access management, secrets, and the detection and hardening capability that defends GSKs identity infrastructure against identity-based attack.

Key responsibilities

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Engineer and support Privileged Access Management capabilities using PAM technologies.
• Implement privileged access controls including credential vaulting, password rotation, session monitoring, and privileged account governance.
• Deliver Just-In-Time (JIT) and least-privilege access controls to reduce standing administrative access across the enterprise.
• Discover, onboard, and govern privileged accounts, service accounts, service principals, managed identities, and other non-human identities.
• Implement and maintain enterprise secrets management capabilities using Privileged Access Management, and cloud-native technologies.
• Support the development of security controls for AI agents, digital workers, and autonomous systems to ensure privileged access is appropriately governed.
• Implement privileged access and identity security controls across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and hybrid environments.
• Identify and remediate identity attack paths, excessive privilege exposure, and authentication weaknesses.
• Build and improve identity threat detection capabilities to identify credential misuse, and privilege escalation.
• Support investigation and remediation activities relating to identity and privileged access security incidents.
• Collaborate with Cloud Security, Security Architecture, Cyber Defense, Platform Engineering, AI Security, and Infrastructure teams to embed identity security controls into enterprise solutions.
• Act as a subject matter expert for assigned technologies and provide technical guidance to project teams and stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience in Privileged Access Management and Identity Security.
• Practical experience managing privileged accounts, service accounts, secrets, or credentials within enterprise environments.
• Understanding of identity security principles including least privilege, privileged access governance, and credential lifecycle management.
• Experience delivering technical solutions across on-premises, hybrid, or cloud environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience securing Azure and GCP administrative access and cloud-native identities.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Managed Identities, and service principals.
• Knowledge with Akeyless or similar enterprise secrets management platforms.
• Familiarity with AI identity governance, digital worker security, or non-human identity management concepts.
• Exposure to identity threat detection, attack path analysis, or identity exposure management.
• Experience within pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISA or equivalent

Skills

• Account Lifecycle Management
• Authentication Systems
• Automation Technology
• Certificate Management
• Cloud Based Services
• Cloud Platform Product and Solution Selection
• Cloud Solutions
• Computer Programming
• Configuration Management (CM)
• Database Management
• Directory Services
• IBM Security Identity Manager
• Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Identity Lifecycle Management
• Information Technology (IT) Risk Management
• Infrastructure Security
• Pam for Securities
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Secure Authentication
• Security Controls
• System Monitors
• Troubleshooting

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