Privileged Access Management (PAM) Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Profile Summary

We are looking for highly technical PAM Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of the PAM solution across our enterprise infrastructure. This role is critical to ensuring secure privileged access, and compliance with regulatory standards.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and optimise PAM platforms across multi‑region, hybrid (on‑prem and SaaS) environments.
• Automate the full lifecycle of privileged credentials, including onboarding, rotation, and decommissioning.
• Define and enforce Safes, RBAC structures, and master policies aligned with NIST 800‑53 and Zero Trust principles.
• Integrate PAM with SIEM and monitoring tools to support real‑time alerting, audit logging, and compliance reporting.
• Configure connectors and plugins for databases, operating systems, cloud platforms, service accounts, certificates, and SSH keys.
• Provide SME‑level support for PAM incidents, collaborating with infrastructure and application teams to resolve issues and maintain platform reliability.
• Develop, test, and support PAM integrations within DevOps CI/CD pipelines and application workflows.
• Maintain documentation including SOPs, onboarding guides, architecture diagrams, and deliver training to internal teams.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• 10+ years of hands‑on experience with enterprise PAM solutions, including vaulting and privileged account management.
• Strong understanding of privileged access concepts, RBAC, and compliance frameworks such as NIST and ISO 27001.
• Experience working with Linux (RHEL 9), Windows Server, databases, and major cloud platforms.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation tools, including PowerShell and REST APIs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage platform upgrades, configurations, and custom integrations.
• Solid knowledge of core infrastructure technologies such as Active Directory, Windows Server, Linux, and cloud services.
• Familiarity with SIEM platforms and broader security tooling such as vulnerability management solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work under pressure and support out‑of‑hours activities during critical upgrades.

What Mizuho Can Offer You

Here at Mizuho, there are fantastic progression opportunities and clear paths to promotion. We will give you ample opportunity to affect change and to help grow our business.

In addition to the great opportunity outlined above we are also currently able to offer:

• Competitive starting salary, plus discretionary bonus
• Non-contributory pension
• 27 days’ annual leave
• Core working hours*
• Hybrid working - office and home based*
• Virtual GP
• Wellbeing benefits, including Mental Health Allies and First Aiders

*For applicable roles only

At Mizuho, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.

We are committed to supporting equality and diversity, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities

If you require more information about our equal opportunities policy or wish to discuss any accessibility requirements or reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team – recruitment@mizuhoemea.com and we will be happy to help.