Information Security Engineer III

About the role

As an Information Security Engineer III, you will help secure and modernize Capital Group's Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities within our Identity and Access Management (IAM) organization. You will design, implement, and support solutions that protect privileged access across on-premises and cloud environments while helping advance our security modernization strategy. You will play a key role in several high-priority initiatives, including PAM platform modernization, StrongDM adoption, Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) enhancements, ServiceNow integration, Azure support. Your work will improve operational resiliency, reduce risk, and strengthen the security of critical systems across the enterprise. You thrive in a direct engineering environment and enjoy solving complex security challenges, partnering with cross-functional teams, and delivering scalable solutions that balance security, efficiency, and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support PAM solutions across on-premises and cloud environments
• Drive PAM platform modernization, StrongDM adoption, Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) enhancements, ServiceNow integration, and Azure support
• Improve operational resiliency, reduce risk, and strengthen security of critical systems
• Troubleshoot complex access and authentication issues and provide Tier 3 support, monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, vulnerability remediation, and resilient production operations for critical PAM services
• Define and operationalize PAM standards, architecture patterns, controls, exception processes, lifecycle governance, metrics, and audit-ready reporting
• Communicate effectively across teams, translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences, take ownership of outcomes, and continually improve security and operational efficiency

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Information Security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), or a related field
• Firsthand experience with PAM technologies such as CyberArk, StrongDM or comparable platforms
• Strong understanding of privileged access controls, identity management, authentication, authorization, and security best practices
• Experience engineering privileged access across on-premises and cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, Kubernetes/EKS, Windows and Linux hosts, databases, command-line access, policy-driven authorization, and monitored sessions
• Experience with Active Directory, enterprise identity services, and authentication and authorization technologies such as SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM 2.0, RBAC, ABAC, certificate-based authentication, Kerberos, and just-in-time provisioning
• Ability to troubleshoot complex access and authentication issues and provide Tier 3 support, monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, vulnerability remediation, and resilient production operations for critical PAM services
• Strong communication skills, ability to translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences, ownership of outcomes, and commitment to continuous improvement
• Ability to define and operationalize PAM standards, architecture patterns, controls, exception processes, lifecycle governance, metrics, and audit-ready reporting

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience securing non-human and machine identities, including service accounts, workload identities, certificates, secrets, and AI agents, with lifecycle governance and least-privilege controls
• Experience designing ServiceNow-integrated just-in-time or on-demand privileged-access workflows, including approvals, policy validation, provisioning, revocation, and audit evidence
• Experience automating PAM administration, onboarding, provisioning, credential rotation, monitoring, and policy enforcement using PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Ansible, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Experience modernizing legacy PAM infrastructure, designing resilient cloud or colocation architectures, executing migrations and decommissioning, conducting recovery testing, and reducing technical debt
• Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CyberArk, Microsoft, or AWS certifications

Pay

Southern California Base Salary Range: $141,648-$226,637. In addition to a highly competitive base salary, per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, plus Capital's annual profitability bonus plus a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings.