Senior Privileged Session Recording Specialist

Job Title: Senior Privileged Session Recording Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote — Work From Home

Level: Senior

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Privileged Session Recording Specialist to design, implement, and manage privileged session recording and monitoring solutions across enterprise IT environments. The successful candidate will strengthen security oversight of privileged access, improve auditability, support investigations, and ensure that administrative activities are recorded and reviewed in accordance with organizational security policies.

This role requires strong expertise in Privileged Access Management (PAM), session monitoring, access controls, audit evidence, and security operations. You will collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, compliance, and IT operations teams to improve privileged access governance, detect suspicious activity, and maintain reliable session recording capabilities across on-premises and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain privileged session recording solutions for servers, databases, network devices, cloud platforms, and critical business applications.
• Configure session monitoring and recording for privileged connections using SSH, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), web consoles, and supported administrative interfaces.
• Integrate session recording platforms with PAM systems, identity providers, authentication services, and enterprise security monitoring tools.
• Establish recording policies, access restrictions, retention periods, and review procedures based on risk classifications and compliance requirements.
• Validate recording completeness, playback functionality, timestamp accuracy, metadata consistency, and secure storage of session evidence.
• Monitor privileged sessions for suspicious activities, unauthorized commands, policy violations, and anomalous administrative behavior.
• Investigate recording failures, incomplete sessions, playback errors, connectivity issues, and gaps in audit trails.
• Implement secure controls for recorded session access, including role-based permissions, encryption, tamper protection, and separation of duties.
• Coordinate with security operations teams to integrate session events and alerts into Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms.
• Support forensic investigations by retrieving, preserving, and analyzing authorized session recordings and associated audit records.
• Develop procedures for session review, incident escalation, evidence handling, and reporting of privileged access violations.
• Maintain and optimize recording infrastructure, including storage capacity, system availability, performance, and retention management.
• Conduct periodic assessments of privileged access coverage to identify unmanaged accounts, unrecorded pathways, and control gaps.
• Support PAM upgrades, infrastructure changes, application onboarding, and integration testing while minimizing service disruption.
• Automate session recording validation, reporting, policy checks, and routine operational tasks using scripting tools.
• Maintain technical documentation, configuration standards, operational runbooks, and audit evidence.
• Recommend improvements to privileged session visibility, monitoring effectiveness, and overall access governance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in Privileged Access Management, security engineering, identity and access management, or enterprise infrastructure security.
• Hands-on experience with privileged session recording and monitoring platforms such as CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea, or comparable solutions.
• Strong understanding of SSH, RDP, administrative access pathways, session brokering, and remote access technologies.
• Experience integrating PAM platforms with directory services, multifactor authentication, SIEM systems, and enterprise identity providers.
• Knowledge of privileged account lifecycle management, least-privilege principles, role-based access controls, and separation of duties.
• Familiarity with session recording retention, encryption, tamper resistance, audit trails, and evidence preservation practices.
• Experience investigating session recording gaps, authentication failures, access anomalies, and platform performance issues.
• Proficiency in PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages for automation and reporting.
• Understanding of cybersecurity incident response, audit requirements, and security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, or CIS Controls.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to handle sensitive security information with discretion and maintain strict confidentiality.
• Relevant certifications in PAM, identity security, cybersecurity, or information security auditing are an advantage.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Recording Coverage: Percentage of in-scope privileged access sessions successfully recorded.
• Recording Reliability: Rate of successful session capture, storage, and playback.
• Policy Compliance: Adherence to approved session recording, retention, and access policies.
• Incident Detection: Timeliness of identifying and escalating suspicious privileged activities.
• Audit Readiness: Completeness and retrievability of session evidence and audit records.
• Issue Resolution: Time required to resolve recording failures and monitoring gaps.
• Platform Availability: Reliability of privileged session recording services.
• Control Improvement: Reduction in unmonitored privileged access pathways and recurring configuration issues.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation based on qualifications and relevant experience.
• Fully remote work-from-home arrangements.
• Opportunities to work with enterprise PAM platforms and advanced privileged access security solutions.
• Professional development in identity security, threat detection, compliance, and security operations.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV highlighting their experience with privileged session recording, PAM platforms, session monitoring, security integrations, and audit support.

Please include examples of recording coverage improvements, complex technical issues resolved, and security or compliance initiatives delivered.

Email Subject: Application – Senior Privileged Session Recording Specialist (United Arab Emirates Remote)

• Candidates should confirm applicable employment arrangements, residency requirements, and work authorization before accepting an offer.