Solution Designer - PAM/PAW

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Strong technical design experience in security, identity, infrastructure, or network environments.
• Practical understanding of PAM and PAW concepts and implementation considerations.
• Experience designing secure access solutions for privileged users and administrators.
• Understanding of network access, firewall rules, remote access, jump servers, hardened workstations, and administrative access paths.
• Ability to produce clear, detailed, and implementation-ready technical documentation.
• Experience working with architects, engineers, testers, PMs, BAs, and operations teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work through complex technical dependencies.
• Ability to take ownership of design deliverables and drive them through review and approval.
• Experience with PAM platforms such as CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea, or similar.
• Experience with endpoint security, device hardening, Active Directory, Entra ID, Intune, SCCM, or similar tooling.
• Experience in telecom, managed services, or large enterprise security programmes.
• Experience with TSA, migration, separation, or transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of PAM and PAW concepts.
• Experience in complex enterprise, network, infrastructure, security, or telecom environments.
• Ability to work across multiple teams and manage ambiguity.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to own deliverables and drive outcomes.
• Good understanding of governance, risk, compliance, and operational readiness.
• Ability to identify risks, dependencies, and blockers early.
• Strong documentation and presentation skills.
• Experience working in high-pressure, time-sensitive delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Produce detailed technical designs for PAM and PAW implementation.
• Translate architecture principles and requirements into build-ready design specifications.
• Define user access flows, privileged account onboarding models, workstation access patterns, and integration requirements.
• Design PAM onboarding processes for privileged accounts, network devices, platforms, and administrative users.
• Define PAW configuration requirements, including device hardening, access restrictions, connectivity, monitoring, and support processes.
• Work with network, security, infrastructure, endpoint, identity, and operations teams to validate the design.
• Identify design-level risks, gaps, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Support engineers and implementation teams during build, test, and deployment.
• Ensure designs include operational considerations such as support model, monitoring, logging, incident handling, and access review.
• Produce detailed design documents, interface specifications, workflow diagrams, and configuration guides.
• Support test planning, defect resolution, and design clarification during implementation.
• Ensure the design is compliant with security policies, audit requirements, and regulatory expectations.

Technologies

• Active Directory
• Firewall
• Support
• Network
• Security
• ARM
• UX UI Design

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We are recruiting a Solution Designer for a 6-month contract in the telecommunications sector. The role is hybrid in London, requiring 2 days per week on site, and is inside IR35. You will join a fast-paced team to develop detailed designs for PAM and PAW solutions based on approved architecture, helping us deliver secure, implementable designs that can be built, tested, deployed, and supported effectively.

last updated 28 week of 2026