Principal Cyber Security Engineer

This is a remote postiion that can be hired in NC, AZ, VA, NJ, and TX.

This person should possess strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills as well as experience in the different phases of the system life cycle, to support multiple projects, develop of standard operating procedures and perform day-to-day functional administration and support for Privileged Access Management (PAM). The engineer should have in-depth experience in management of passwords/credentials (such as default accounts, service accounts, keys, etc.) in PAM solutions.

• Support the deployment and integration of privileged account security solutions.

• Ability to discuss technical concepts and interdependencies with customers

• Experience gathering high level functional and operational requirements

• Experience developing and managing multiple system designs concurrently

• Provide operation and maintenance of existing PAM solutions

• Develop design documentation, standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and implementation/deployment plans for privileged account security solutions and identity governance solutions

• Provide after-hours and on-call production support when required

• Develop diagrams and documentation to support infrastructure configuration changes.

• Provide security tool enhancements and performance tuning to increase capability to support new requirements.

• Plan, test, and deploy firmware, software upgrades, and security fixes.

Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Network, or Information Security OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Network, or Information Security

Preferred Skills:

• Experience supporting PAM solutions (CyberArk, HashiCorp , Delinea , etc.) in enterprise environment

• Hands-on PowerShell/Python or similar scripting experience

• Ability to proficiently utilize SailPoint identity management system a plus

• Proficiency with MS Visio, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel

• Background in information security systems with specific knowledge around access control

• Background in role-based access control for privileged access

• Hands-on Windows 2019 or later Server administration experience

• Hands-on Active Directory and LDAP query experience

• Functional understanding of TCP/IP networks and firewalls

• Functional understanding of the following protocols: TCP, UDP, DNS, NetBIOS, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, SSL

• Strong UNIX/Linux system administration experience

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at