Job Description
Job Title: Privileged Access Management (PAM) Consultant
Role Overview: We are seeking a highly experienced Privileged Access Management (PAM) Consultant to lead the assessment and strategic planning of PAM solutions within a complex hosting infrastructure. This role focuses on evaluating existing access control mechanisms, identifying risks associated with over-privileged accounts, and recommending scalable PAM solutions tailored to diverse operating systems and on-premises environments.
Key Responsibilities:
· Conduct comprehensive assessments of internal infrastructure to identify privileged access risks and gaps.
· Analyze current access provisioning models, especially where elevated permissions (e.g., root, Admin access) are broadly granted.
· Analyze existing access control models and recommend enhancements using RBAC, ABAC, and least privilege principles.
· Design PAM architectures that support secure delegation of access across diverse platforms.
· Design and recommend PAM strategies that enforce least privilege, improve auditability, and enhance operational security.
· Evaluate and compare PAM solutions (e.g., CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea) based on technical fit, scalability, and integration capabilities.
· Document findings in detailed reports including architecture diagrams, risk assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
· Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and operations teams to align PAM strategies with business and technical requirements.
· Support PoC and pilot deployments to validate solution effectiveness.
· Provide technical guidance on session monitoring, credential vaulting, access workflows, and policy enforcement.
Requirements
Key Skills & Experience:
· 10+ years of experience in PAM consulting and implementation, with a strong focus on environmental assessment and solution design.
· Strong expertise in RBAC and ABAC models, including policy design and enforcement.
· Deep understanding of on-premises infrastructure and hosting environments.
· Hands-on experience with Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX server platforms.
· Familiarity with Active Directory, LDAP, SSH key management, and service account governance.
· Experience with PAM tools such as CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea, etc
· Experience with identity federation, directory services, and authentication.
Requirements
IBP Supply Planning Product Interchangeability Inventory Optimization Customer Management: Specialized knowledge of customers' business domain and technology suite. Use latest technology, communicate effectively, demonstrate leadership, present technical offerings, and proactively suggest solutions. Projects Documentation In-depth understanding documentation involved in Project like BBP & Solution Design, FS etc. Able to build into require project documentation and can do a Peer review for team members project/module documents. Domain And Industry Knowledge Specialized knowledge of customers' business processes and relevant technology platform or product. Apply industry standards/ practices and create complex business models in line with customer requirements independently. Analyze current-state and define to-be processes in collaboration with SME and present recommendations with tangible benefits. Drive process improvement initiatives, ROI analysis through innovation. Functional Design Specialized knowledge of solution design, scope analysis, and building blocks for business cases. Identifying key business drivers and translating them into solution components Creating diagrams from use cases and updating design specifications Understanding functional specifications and designing flexible solutions Collaborating with stakeholders to explain the solution approach Offering solution options based on research and coordinating process playbacks and reviews for business solutions. Requirement Gathering And Analysis Specialized knowledge of requirement management processes and requirement analysis processes, tools & methodologies. Extract requirements for complex scenarios and prototype independently. Identify modules impacted, features/functionalities impacted and arrive at high level estimates. Develop traceability matrix and identify transition requirements. Test Management Able to create iteration, system integration test plan and develop integration test cases as required and verify system build, test environment and iteration test plan. Create business scenario test cases and automation test scripts based on understanding of functionality requirements. Conduct regression tests as required and impact analysis when a defect fix is made.