Privileged Access Management (PAM) Engineer

Management Level

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

You will be responsible for support and delivery of PAM services across EQ to ensure privileged accounts and privileged access to critical systems is properly managed and controlled.

This role will report into the PAM Team Lead, being part of a team of 4+ staff located across UK and India.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

As PAM Engineer you will be responsible for managing the Beyond Trust Privileged Access Management (PAM) service and supporting infrastructure as well as assisting in the management and mentoring of the existing PAM team members.

• Act as a subject matter expert for all things PAM related.  
• Work with the team lead to ensure patterns and practices are consistently embedded into EQ infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Act as a strong team mentor driving delivery and operational excellence across the team.
• Support the team lead in the definition and delivery of the strategic direction for PAM across EQ businesses, outlining key PAM initiatives to strengthen the EQ control environment, aligned to regulatory and compliance requirements and to EQ Group objectives.
• Drive the execution, delivery, and support of privileged access management services and develop, enact, and enforce privileged access runbooks and procedures.
• Support the development of EQ’s Privileged Access capabilities, increase coverage whilst delivering improvements in operational efficiencies and reduction in complexity.
• Build relationships with key IT and Business stakeholders to support their understanding of PAM control requirements.
• Develop and evolve governance controls for PAM to meet the needs of regulators and other internal stakeholders, particularly in the face of new technology approaches.
• Guide the team through complex issues and drive resolution for technical and operational issues that arise within complex and critical systems.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential:

• Experience in designing, implementing, administering and maintaining PAM solutions such as (BeyondTrust),
• Demonstrable experience in administering and maintaining password safe tools such as BeyondTrust Password safe.
• Familiarity with working in geographically dispersed, multi-cultural teams.
• Demonstrate an understanding of troubleshooting and configuring Privileged applications, Privileged ID Management, and API integrations.
• Experience of deploying and operating PAM capabilities in Hybrid Environments (On-Prem, AWS, Azure)
• Building relationships with key business stakeholders, project teams, operational teams, and service providers.

Preferred:

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience of working in a large, complex IT environment (preferably within Financial Services).
• Strong understanding of IT Security Standards and frameworks (such as ISO, NIST, GDPR).

What We Offer

Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%

All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.

Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhanced cover.

Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.

Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.

Time Off – 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

Learning & Development – Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.