Nscale
AI infrastructure
StaffSecurityEngineer,PrivilegedAccess(PAM)
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“Staff Security Engineer, Privileged Access (PAM) at Nscale. Skills: Privileged Access Management, Identity Security, Access Automation. Build privileged access workflows. Design access patterns”
What You'll Achieve.
Standing privilege reduction; JIT adoption; Stale admin cleanup; Break-glass test success; Approval SLA; Access review closure
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years identity security, 7+ years privileged access, 7+ years security engineering, 7+ years infrastructure security, Hands-on designing privileged access, Hands-on operating privileged access, Hands-on designing JIT access, Hands-on operating JIT access, Hands-on designing break-glass access, Hands-on operating break-glass access, Hands-on designing access request workflows, Hands-on operating access request workflows, Hands-on designing approval workflows, Hands-on operating approval workflows, Hands-on designing access review workflows, Hands-on operating access review workflows, Understanding authentication, Understanding authorization, Understanding RBAC, Understanding SSO, Understanding MFA, Understanding access governance, Understanding admin tiering, Understanding least privilege, Experience automating access workflows, Experience automating entitlement cleanup, Experience automating evidence collection, Experience automating revocation, Scripting skills, Workflow automation skills, API integration skills, Platform engineering skills, Ability translate access risk, Experience with service accounts, Experience with non-human identities, Experience with workload identities, Experience with API tokens, Experience with automation accounts, Experience with secrets governance, Experience securing production access, Experience securing source control administration, Experience securing data platforms, Experience securing cloud administration, Experience securing endpoint admin, Experience designing access evidence
Nice to Have
Experience with Kubernetes
What You'll Do.
Build privileged access workflows
Design access patterns
Define practical controls
Establish clean audit trails
Implement JIT access patterns
Create privileged access baseline
Drive entitlement cleanup
Reduce stale privilege
Design break-glass access standards
Test emergency access workflows
Validate break-glass readiness
Develop tiering model
Identify highest-risk privileges
Create remediation paths
Define telemetry requirements
Establish privileged access detections
Source-health requirements
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Identity control plane; Identity; Endpoint; Security Data; Network Security; Platform Engineering; IT; Service owners
Full Job Description
About Nscale Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future. About the Role We’re hiring a Staff Security Engineer focused on Privileged Access and Access Automation to build Nscale’s privileged access operating model across enterprise systems, SaaS administration, infrastructure, production environments, source control, data platforms, and emergency access paths. This role sits inside the identity control plane and is intentionally execution-focused. You’ll work across Identity, Endpoint, Security Data, Network Security, Platform Engineering, IT, and service owners to turn privileged access into a practical engineering mechanism with request, approval, justification, time-bound elevation, session or event evidence, automated revocation, break-glass, and clean audit trails. This role is critical because standing privilege is one of the highest-risk patterns in a fast-growing infrastructure company. Your work will help make privileged access secure, fast, measurable, and recoverable so engineers can move quickly without relying on manual reviews, tribal knowledge, or permanent admin rights. What you'll be doing Privileged Access Workflows Build privileged access workflows across enterprise SaaS admin role
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