Royal Bank of Canada

Director, PAM Systems Support (Global Security)

Royal Bank of Canada$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in Identity and Access Management, with 5 years in PAM operations
  • Leadership experience managing production support teams in large enterprises
  • Deep hands-on expertise with PAM platforms, especially CyberArk
  • Strong knowledge of Windows/Linux, Active Directory, and vault integration
  • Familiarity with compliance requirements such as SOX and NIST
  • Skilled in root cause analysis and infrastructure automation tools
  • Excellent communication and executive reporting skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage PAM production support team in on-prem and cloud environments
  • Ensure operational integrity, uptime, and performance of PAM systems
  • Manage incident response, problem management, and root cause analysis
  • Establish operational standards, SLOs, and change management processes
  • Partner with tech and cyber teams to securely deploy upgrades and integrations
  • Develop dashboards and reports for PAM health and compliance metrics
  • Provide executive-level insights on platform stability and security risk reduction
  • Champion automation initiatives for efficiency and security improvements

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Support from leaders for development through coaching opportunities
  • Dynamic and collaborative work environment with high-performing teams
  • Career growth opportunities within RBC
  • Ability to make a lasting impact
  • World-class training program in financial services
  • Challenging work opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Director, PAM Systems Support, drives operational excellence across the organization's privileged access management ecosystem. This role oversees production-level support, maintenance and reliability of all PAM platforms, ensuring secure, compliant, and performant privileged access across hybrid infrastructure. Acting as the escalation point for complex issues, the Director leads a high-performing team that supports key PAM platforms and implements governance models for consistent privileged session management, secrets rotation, and least privileged enforcement.

What will you do?
  • Lead and manage PAM production support team across on-prem and cloud environments.
  • Owns the operational integrity, uptime, and performance of PAM systems in production.
  • Manages incident response, problem management, and root cause analysis for PAM tooling.
  • Establishes and refines operational standards, SLOs, and change management processes.
  • Partners with tech and cyber infrastructure teams to deploy upgrades, patches and new integrations securely.
  • Develops dashboards and reports for PAM health, usage metrics, and compliance posture.
  • Provides executive-level insights into platforms stability, capacity, and security risk reduction.
  • Champions automation initiatives for account onboarding, credential rotations, and alerting workflows to drive efficiency and security posture improvements.
  • Mentors support engineers and managers, focusing on skill development and operational maturity


What do you need to succeed?

Must have:
  • 10+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management, with at least 5 years focused on PAM operations/ support.
  • Proven leadership managing production support teams in large enterprise environments
  • Deep hands-on expertise with PAM platforms, ideally CyberArk (PAS, CPM, PVWA, PSM, EMP, PCloud)
  • Strong familiarity with Windows/ Linux administration, Active Directory, network segmentation, and vault integration.
  • Understanding compliance requirements (SOX, NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls) and audit processes.
  • Skilled in root cause analysis, system monitoring, and infrastructure automation (e.g. PowerShell, REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform)
  • Excellent communication and executive reporting skills, ability to translate technical impact into business risk context


Nice to have:
  • Experience with endpoint privilege management and cloud access support across Azure and AWS
  • Prior experience implementation CyberArk PCloud, or Secrets Manager.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps integration, or cloud-native PAM deployment
  • Experience managing vendor relationships and contract renewals for identity security platforms.
  • Knowledge of emerging AI-drive identity security or behavioral analytics technologies.


What9;s in it for you?
  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Support from a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high performing team, as well as world-class tools and training
  • Opportunity to achieve great success and grow your career with RBC
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


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Job Skills
Critical Thinking, Cyber Security Management, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Information Security Management, Information Technology Security, Interpersonal Relationship Management, IT Security Architecture, Performance Management (PM)

Additional Job Details

Address:

16 YORK ST:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-04-17

Application Deadline:

2026-06-16
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.

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