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IT Infrastructure Engineer VI, Security

Kaiser Permanente

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Location
Pleasanton, CA
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Job overview

The IT Infrastructure Engineer VI, Security provides technical leadership for CyberArk privileged access management, enterprise identity security, and privileged account governance. The role guides secure privileged access solutions across enterprise environments, including credential and secrets management, session management, endpoint privilege management, availability, disaster recovery, and security integrations. It also leads complex security technology initiatives, advises on infrastructure security operations, and partners across technology teams to advance security and compliance objectives.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

CyberArk PAMPrivileged Access ManagementIdentity SecurityPrivileged Account GovernanceSession ManagementCredential ManagementSecrets ManagementEndpoint Privilege ManagementDisaster RecoverySecurity IntegrationsMicrosoft EnvironmentsHybrid EnvironmentsDevOpsWaterfallAgileSystem DesignTechnical SpecificationsInfrastructure PlanningInfrastructure EngineeringInfrastructure ArchitectureDistributed TechnologiesSystems DevelopmentNetworkingTechnical LeadershipProject LeadershipRegulatory ComplianceComplex Infrastructure Solutions

Qualifications

Eight Years Infrastructure or Security SolutionsFour Years Security Technology LeadershipFour Years Technical LeadershipBachelor's in Computer Science or RelatedTen Years IT Operations ExperienceFour Years Regulatory Solutions ExperienceFour Years Complex Infrastructure Experience

Full job description

Candidates for this position must have valid work authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship of a visa or signature by the employer on any immigration-related form.

Tech Summary:

The Chief Engineer provides technical leadership for CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM), enterprise identity security, and privileged account governance. The position supports the design, implementation, integration, and ongoing advancement of secure, scalable, and resilient privileged access solutions across complex enterprise environments.

The role provides technical direction across CyberArk technologies and capabilities supporting privileged access, session management, credential management, secrets management, endpoint privilege management, platform availability, disaster recovery, and security integrations. The position also supports automation and modernization of privileged access capabilities across Microsoft and hybrid environments.

The Chief Engineer partners with identity and access management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, compliance, and other cross-functional technology teams to strengthen privileged access controls, support security and compliance objectives, and advance enterprise identity security initiatives. The role provides technical leadership for strategic initiatives and helps guide engineering practices and scalable security solutions aligned with organizational security and operational objectives.

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for providing expert level consultation on the design, build, testing, and implementation of information security technologies, including infrastructure and supporting applications related to data protection, network security, end-point security, threat monitoring, and/or IAM. This includes managing complex IS projects or programs through both pre-production and implementation phases by partnering with internal technology risk teams, infrastructure management, and external business groups to understand requirements and design and implement solutions accordingly; testing and validating upgrades, enhancements, or new technologies prior to production implementation; consulting on incident support efforts to help resolve and remediate application production issues; and leading the implementation of new security controls as appropriate to resolve incidences and mitigate threat risks. This position is also responsible for serving as a lead subject matter expert on infrastructure security operations, leveraging partnerships with the IS Architecture & Strategy team to help develop and validate the long-term direction for security technologies, and providing technical subject matter expertise to support the ongoing assessment and mitigation of information security risks.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.

  • Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

  • As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.

  • Fosters and leverages partnerships with various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation.

  • Serve as an expert in developing system designs that adhere to company architecture standards.

  • Provides guidance and standards for writing, reviewing, and validating technical specifications and documentation.

  • Leads team interactions with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs.

  • Leverages partnerships with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems and provide solutions.

  • Modifies and validates system design prototypes.

  • Provides expert consultation and expert technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems across multiple IT functional areas by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities.

  • Leverages expertise on existing systems to make recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels and meet new demands.

  • Leads others in developing project support plans, schedules, and assignments.

  • Partners with business leaders, Solutions, and enterprise architects to review business drivers, and define, understand, and communicate target strategies and roadmaps to team members.

  • Leads colleagues in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems spanning multiple IT functional areas, by partnering with lead Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications.

  • Provides recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs.

  • Serves as a key partner for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of enterprise infrastructure systems across multiple functional IT areas by defining and overseeing the documentation of detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services.

  • Leads team members in the estimation of resource requirements for technical design.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum eight (8) years experience in the planning, design, and implementation of infrastructure or security solutions, including Minimum four (4) years leading the configuration, implementation, and operation of security technologies.

  • Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies , systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Four (4) years of experience building technology solutions to meet corporate or industry IT regulatory requirements.

  • Four (4) years experience in the design and implementation of complex infrastructure solutions.

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: IT Infrastructure Engineer VI, Security

LOCATION: Pleasanton, California

REQNUMBER: 1455819

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,624 open Infrastructure Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • California median$173–257K/yr757 salary ranges
  • US median$50–60/hr100 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 981 open Infrastructure Engineer jobs in California and 4,624 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Infrastructure Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 3,656 postings).
Education
852 of the 4,624 open Infrastructure Engineer jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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