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