Senior Cyber Security Engineer

About the role

Joining Moderna means advancing mRNA science to transform medicine. Work with exceptional global teams on a broad pipeline and build a career that makes a real difference for patients. Moderna is strengthening its international business services hub in Warsaw, supporting our growing global operations. We welcome professionals ready to help advance our mission and shape the future of mRNA medicines. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in advancing and maturing Moderna's Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities within a rapidly evolving technology and cybersecurity landscape. As a technical subject matter expert, you will drive the design, administration, integration, and continuous improvement of CyberArk-based privileged access solutions across both cloud and on-premises environments. Working within a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment, you will combine deep technical expertise, intellectual agility, and a security-first mindset to help ensure privileged access controls remain secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with the needs of a growing global organization. You will partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, security, governance, and business stakeholders while helping shape the future of identity security at Moderna, including opportunities to leverage automation, digital innovation, and emerging AI-driven capabilities to enhance operational effectiveness and security outcomes. Here's What You'll Do: Serve as the engineering subject matter expert for Moderna's Privileged Access Management program, owning the CyberArk platform and its associated components. Manage the configuration, administration, maintenance, and ongoing optimization of the CyberArk environment. Collaborate with business units, application owners, and engineering teams to understand requirements and translate business needs into secure and scalable PAM solutions and technical designs. Conduct stakeholder interviews and gather application, service, and infrastructure information to support CyberArk onboarding activities. Define and articulate business and functional requirements based on evolving industry best practices, emerging technologies, and organizational needs. Partner with DevOps, systems, network, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to ensure privileged access management standards are consistently implemented and maintained. Perform application integration assessments and provide technical guidance on CyberArk integration approaches and options. Lead and manage the onboarding of privileged accounts into CyberArk, ensuring adherence to established design frameworks and operational standards. Develop and maintain end-user documentation, knowledge articles, standards, and training materials to support adoption and operational excellence. Create detailed architecture documentation, implementation plans, technical standards, and solution designs. Evaluate the existing PAM environment to identify technical, operational, and security enhancement opportunities, driving continuous improvement initiatives. Participate in disaster recovery planning, capacity management, performance monitoring, maintenance activities, and platform resilience efforts to ensure high availability. Work closely with Cybersecurity and Governance teams to ensure PAM solutions align with corporate security policies, regulatory requirements, and established standards. Regularly review, evaluate, and enhance PAM policies, procedures, and controls to maintain strong security compliance and operational effectiveness. Develop, support, and maintain security policies, standards, and operational processes related to privileged access management. Stay current on industry trends, threat landscapes, emerging technologies, and evolving identity security practices to help ensure Moderna's IAM and PAM strategies remain effective and future-ready. Contribute to the overall cybersecurity posture of the organization through adherence to security policies, procedures, and best practices. Support emergency incidents and planned maintenance activities, including participation in 24x7 support requirements when necessary. The key Moderna Mindsets you'll need to succeed in the role: "We obsess over learning. We don't have to be the smartest we have to learn the fastest." "We digitize everywhere possible using the power of code to maximize our impact on patients." Here's What You'll Need (Minimum Qualifications) BS level technical degree or equivalent experience required; Computer Science or Math background preferred 8+ years in the technology field, with 4-6+ years working in the identity and access management domain 3+ years of experience with CyberArk and Privileged Cloud technologies including hands-on experience with account and safe management, CyberArk administration and configuration, manageme