Identity & Access Management (IAM/PAM) Specialist
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Role Overview
Operate and govern enterprise identity, access, authentication, IGA, and privileged-access services across the entity's environment.
Key Responsibilities* Manage joiner, mover, and leaver identity lifecycle processes and automated account provisioning across connected systems.
• Review access requests, approvals, role assignments, segregation-of-duties conflicts, and least-privilege controls.
• Operate SSO and MFA services and investigate failed, suspicious, or anomalous authentication activity.
• Monitor identity synchronization, resolve provisioning failures, and maintain identity-data consistency.
• Run access-certification campaigns, coordinate with business owners, and escalate overdue reviews.
• Identify and remediate inactive, orphaned, excessive, or high-risk accounts and entitlements.
• Govern privileged access requests, session monitoring, recordings, shared accounts, and just-in-time access.
• Support audits, compliance evidence, IAM/PAM incident investigation, remediation tracking, and periodic operational reporting.
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Location and Engagement
- The role is on-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- The engagement is project-based managed cybersecurity services for a 13-month RFP term.
Experience and Education
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field is required.
- At least six years of experience in IAM governance, engineering, or operations is required.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise IAM, IGA, and PAM platforms is required.
Role Purpose
- Operate and govern enterprise identity, access, authentication, IGA, and privileged-access services across the organization's environment.
Identity Operations
- Manage joiner, mover, and leaver lifecycle processes and automated provisioning across connected systems.
- Monitor identity synchronization, resolve provisioning failures, and maintain identity-data consistency.
- Run access-certification campaigns and escalate overdue reviews.
- Remediate inactive, orphaned, excessive, or high-risk accounts and entitlements.
Access and Authentication
- Review access requests, approvals, role assignments, segregation-of-duties conflicts, and least-privilege controls.
- Operate SSO and MFA services and investigate failed, suspicious, or anomalous authentication activity.
- Govern privileged access requests, session monitoring, recordings, shared accounts, and just-in-time access.
Technical Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of identity lifecycle, access-control models, SSO, MFA, RBAC, least privilege, and segregation of duties is required.
- Experience integrating IAM solutions with enterprise applications and applying Zero Trust and modern authentication principles is required.
- Knowledge of Saudi regulatory requirements and international identity-security practices is required.
Professional Attributes
- The role requires stakeholder coordination, service ownership, careful handling of sensitive access data, troubleshooting, reporting, and documentation skills.
- The successful candidate must balance operational responsiveness with strict governance controls.
Preferred Certifications
- CIAM, CISSP, Microsoft Identity certification, or an equivalent IAM-related certification is preferred.
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