AHEAD

Identity Security Specialist Solutions Engineer

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2 months ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
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Base Salary

$270k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a national identity-security resource for qualified opportunities across AHEAD regions.
  • Lead advisory discovery, technical sales calls, identity-security assessments, architecture workshops, demonstrations, POVs/POCs, and executive briefings.
  • Design and present CyberArk-centered privileged-access architectures for workforce, administrator, vendor, service, machine, and non-human identities.
  • Advise customers on privileged-account discovery, vaulting, credential rotation, onboarding, session management, monitoring, just-in-time access, least privilege, break-glass access, and shared-account reduction.
  • Partner with delivery leadership to ensure proposed solutions are implementable and aligned with AHEAD’s professional and managed services capabilities.
  • Create solution designs, configurations, sizing inputs, services proposals, statements of work, presentations, technical justifications, and customer roadmaps.
  • Provide pricing and effort inputs and qualify opportunities based on technical requirements, business outcomes, decision process, funding, and customer readiness.
  • Define CyberArk and adjacent identity-security strategies across on-premises, AWS, Azure, GCP, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
  • Connect PIM/PAM strategy to IAM, IGA, MFA, SSO, ITDR, secrets management, cloud IAM, SIEM/SOAR, ITSM, and Zero Trust programs.
  • Work with OEM field teams and contribute reusable architectures, discovery guides, workshop content, competitive insights, and enablement materials.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, identity, cloud, technology consulting, or solutions engineering, including at least 4 years focused on identity security.
  • Prior customer-facing pre-sales, solutions engineering, consulting, or security-architecture experience.
  • Demonstrated CyberArk experience in an enterprise program spanning at least two lifecycle stages such as assessment, design, migration, implementation, integration, or operationalization.
  • Practical expertise in PIM and PAM concepts, controls, workflows, and operating models.
  • Experience creating customer-facing proposals, solution designs, statements of work, services proposals, or equivalent pre-sales artifacts.
  • Ability to design and present identity-security architectures to technical practitioners and executive stakeholders.
  • Experience integrating privileged access with enterprise identity, cloud, endpoint, security operations, and ITSM platforms.
  • CyberArk certification or equivalent demonstrated product expertise is preferred.
  • Experience with CyberArk Privilege Cloud, PAM Self-Hosted, Endpoint Privilege Manager, Secrets Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, Delinea, BeyondTrust, or comparable platforms is preferred.
  • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CyberArk, GIAC, or equivalent are preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k).
  • Paid company holidays and paid time off.
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave.
  • Sponsorship of certifications and credentials for continued learning.
  • Internal development and diversity groups, including Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD.
  • Multi-million-dollar technology lab and cross-department training opportunities.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
AHEAD

About AHEAD

1,001-5,000 employees

AHEAD is an IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and operates digital platforms for large enterprises across cloud infrastructure, automation, data and analytics, security, and DevOps. It generates revenue through consulting, systems integration, and managed services, including cloud management and operations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and owned by Centerbridge Partners.

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