Senior Privileged Access Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Privileged Access Specialist

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined contract management, commercial excellence, risk control, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams collaborate across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Design, Quality, HSE, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, and Executive Leadership to maintain secure technology environments, protect sensitive information, strengthen access controls, and support uninterrupted business and project delivery.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Privileged Access Specialist to support privileged access management, identity security, access governance, account administration, security controls, monitoring, compliance, and risk reduction across the organization. The ideal candidate will provide senior-level technical and operational support throughout the privileged access lifecycle, from account onboarding and access provisioning through monitoring, certification, incident response, auditing, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support privileged access management processes across enterprise IT environments.
• Manage privileged accounts, administrative identities, service accounts, emergency accounts, and other elevated-access credentials.
• Implement and maintain privileged access controls in accordance with organizational security policies and standards.
• Review and validate requests for privileged access based on business requirements, job responsibilities, and approved authorization.
• Provision, modify, suspend, and remove privileged access in accordance with established procedures.
• Enforce least-privilege principles and appropriate segregation of duties across critical systems.
• Support role-based access control and privileged access governance initiatives.
• Manage privileged credentials through approved privileged access management platforms.
• Configure and maintain password vaulting, credential rotation, session management, and privileged account controls.
• Monitor privileged sessions, administrative activities, authentication events, and access anomalies.
• Review privileged access logs and identify suspicious, unusual, or unauthorized activity.
• Escalate potential security incidents and access violations to Cybersecurity, Information Security, and relevant management teams.
• Support investigations involving compromised credentials, unauthorized access, excessive privileges, and policy violations.
• Coordinate with Network, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application, Database, and Systems teams regarding privileged access requirements.
• Support privileged access across servers, databases, network devices, cloud platforms, applications, endpoints, and other critical technology environments.
• Maintain accurate inventories of privileged accounts, systems, applications, service accounts, and associated ownership information.
• Identify unmanaged, orphaned, dormant, shared, or excessive privileged accounts and coordinate appropriate remediation.
• Support the onboarding of new systems and applications into privileged access management platforms.
• Assist with integrating privileged accounts and systems into centralized access management and security controls.
• Develop and maintain procedures for privileged account creation, approval, provisioning, monitoring, review, and removal.
• Maintain detailed documentation covering privileged access architecture, processes, configurations, controls, and operational procedures.
• Conduct periodic privileged access reviews and certifications with system owners and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Human Resources and management to ensure privileged access is promptly adjusted following employee transfers, role changes, or departures.
• Support joiner, mover, and leaver processes involving elevated system privileges.
• Review service accounts and non-human identities to ensure appropriate ownership, authentication methods, permissions, and lifecycle controls.
• Support the implementation of multi-factor authentication and strong authentication controls for privileged accounts.
• Assist with the enforcement of password complexity, credential rotation, session timeout, and access control requirements.
• Monitor privileged account activity for compliance with organizational policies and security standards.
• Prepare regular reports covering privileged accounts, access requests, access reviews, exceptions, incidents, and control performance.
• Provide management with reporting and analysis regarding privileged access risks and remediation activities.
• Support internal and external cybersecurity audits involving identity and access management controls.
• Prepare audit evidence, access records, approvals, certifications, system configurations, and supporting documentation.
• Ensure privileged access processes comply with applicable United Arab Emirates cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, contractual, and organizational requirements.
• Maintain awareness of relevant UAE cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory expectations, industry standards, and emerging identity security practices.
• Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, and Information Security teams on privileged access governance requirements.
• Identify access-control weaknesses, excessive permissions, policy exceptions, and other privileged access risks.
• Recommend remediation measures to reduce unauthorized access and improve security controls.
• Support vulnerability remediation activities involving privileged credentials and administrative access.
• Assist with privileged account security during infrastructure migrations, cloud adoption, system upgrades, and technology projects.
• Participate in cybersecurity incident response activities where privileged accounts or elevated credentials are involved.
• Support forensic investigations by providing authorized privileged access records, session logs, and relevant technical information.
• Coordinate with external vendors, consultants, and managed security providers regarding privileged access requirements and technical issues.
• Evaluate privileged access tools and technologies and provide recommendations for improvements or enhancements.
• Support system upgrades, configuration changes, testing, and implementation of privileged access management solutions.
• Maintain appropriate change management documentation for privileged access configurations and security controls.
• Ensure privileged access changes are properly authorized, tested, documented, and implemented.
• Support automation of privileged access workflows, approvals, account discovery, credential rotation, and access reviews.
• Identify recurring operational issues and recommend improvements to privileged access processes and technologies.
• Maintain strict confidentiality when handling credentials, access information, security logs, employee data, system configurations, and other sensitive information.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior identity and access management personnel.
• Participate in cross-functional security meetings and provide privileged access expertise to technology and business initiatives.
• Maintain professional knowledge of identity security, privileged access management, cybersecurity frameworks, cloud security, authentication technologies, and access governance practices.
• Assist Executive Leadership and management with privileged access risk assessments, security reports, control improvements, and strategic initiatives.
• Perform other privileged access management, identity security, cybersecurity, technical, and administrative responsibilities consistent with the position and organizational needs.