Principal - IAM Privileged Access and Identity Security

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Job Purpose:

This is a hands-on engineering role responsible for delivering GSK's Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity Security capabilities.

This role will support the protection of privileged accounts, cloud administrative access, and machine identities. Working as a core subject matter expert of the IAM Privileged Access & Identity Security team, the successful candidate will help implement controls that reduce cyber risk and strengthen identity resilience.

About the team:

IAM Privileged Access and Identity Security protects the accounts that can do the most damage. The team owns privileged access management, secrets, and the detection and hardening capability that defends GSK's identity infrastructure against identity-based attack.

Key responsibilities:

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Engineer and support Privileged Access Management capabilities using PAM technologies.

• Implement privileged access controls including credential vaulting, password rotation, session monitoring, and privileged account governance.

• Deliver Just-In-Time (JIT) and least-privilege access controls to reduce standing administrative access across the enterprise.

• Discover, onboard, and govern privileged accounts, service accounts, service principals, managed identities, and other non-human identities.

• Implement and maintain enterprise secrets management capabilities using Privileged Access Management, and cloud-native technologies.

• Support the development of security controls for AI agents, digital workers, and autonomous systems to ensure privileged access is appropriately governed.

• Implement privileged access and identity security controls across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and hybrid environments.

• Identify and remediate identity attack paths, excessive privilege exposure, and authentication weaknesses.

• Build and improve identity threat detection capabilities to identify credential misuse, and privilege escalation.

• Support investigation and remediation activities relating to identity and privileged access security incidents.

• Collaborate with Cloud Security, Security Architecture, Cyber Defense, Platform Engineering, AI Security, and Infrastructure teams to embed identity security controls into enterprise solutions.

• Act as a subject matter expert for assigned technologies and provide technical guidance to project teams and stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Experience in Privileged Access Management and Identity Security.

• Practical experience managing privileged accounts, service accounts, secrets, or credentials within enterprise environments.

• Understanding of identity security principles including least privilege, privileged access governance, and credential lifecycle management.

• Experience delivering technical solutions across on-premises, hybrid, or cloud environments.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience securing Azure and GCP administrative access and cloud-native identities.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Managed Identities, and service principals.

• Knowledge with Akeyless or similar enterprise secrets management platforms.

• Familiarity with AI identity governance, digital worker security, or non-human identity management concepts.

• Exposure to identity threat detection, attack path analysis, or identity exposure management.

• Experience within pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries.

• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISA or equivalent

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Inclusion at GSK:

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Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.

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