Identity & Access Management (IAM/PAM) Specialist

Location: On-site – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Contract/engagement: Project-based managed cybersecurity services (13-month RFP term) Minimum experience: 6+ years Role Purpose Operate and govern enterprise identity, access, authentication, IGA, and privileged-access services across the entity's environment. Key Responsibilities ·      Manage joiner, mover, and leaver identity lifecycle processes and automated account provisioning across connected systems. ·      Review access requests, approvals, role assignments, segregation-of-duties conflicts, and least-privilege controls. ·      Operate SSO and MFA services and investigate failed, suspicious, or anomalous authentication activity. ·      Monitor identity synchronization, resolve provisioning failures, and maintain identity-data consistency. ·      Run access-certification campaigns, coordinate with business owners, and escalate overdue reviews. ·      Identify and remediate inactive, orphaned, excessive, or high-risk accounts and entitlements. ·      Govern privileged access requests, session monitoring, recordings, shared accounts, and just-in-time access. ·      Support audits, compliance evidence, IAM/PAM incident investigation, remediation tracking, and periodic operational reporting.