AppSec & Secrets Management Engineer

Socket.dev; College Township (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health benefits

Work-life balance

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a seasoned security professional to protect credentials, keys, and tokens across its software supply chain. You will partner with engineering and IAM teams to implement GHAS, automate secret controls, and monitor exposure trends while advancing secure SDLC practices.

You will contribute to remediation, governance, and incident response for sensitive secrets, with a focus on measurable improvements in risk posture and security maturity.

Qualifications

• Experience in Application Security, DevSecOps, IAM, Cloud Security, or Security Operations.
• Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), Secrets Scanning, and CI/CD platforms.
• Understanding of cloud credentials, API tokens, certificates, service accounts, and privileged access concepts.
• Knowledge of secure SDLC practices and software supply chain security principles.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, or similar technologies.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, IAM, platform, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, validate, and triage exposed credentials, API keys, tokens, certificates, and other sensitive secrets using risk-based prioritization.
• Partner with application teams to drive timely remediation, credential rotation, revocation, and secure replacement of exposed secrets.
• Support the implementation and administration of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) Secret Protection, push protection, custom detection patterns, and enterprise scanning controls.
• Define, document, and maintain secrets classification standards, severity models, response procedures, and governance processes.
• Collaborate with IAM and platform teams to improve credential lifecycle management practices, including vault adoption, rotation controls, and privileged access management integration.
• Develop dashboards, metrics, and reporting to measure secrets exposure trends, remediation effectiveness, SLA performance, and program maturity.
• Support exception management workflows, bypass approvals, evidence collection, and audit readiness activities for secrets-related controls.
• Work with engineering, AppSec, and security advisor teams to identify recurring exposure patterns and improve preventive controls.
• Create developer-facing guidance, training materials, and best practices to promote secure secrets handling throughout the SDLC.
• Identify automation opportunities through APIs, workflows, and AI-assisted capabilities to streamline detection, triage, ownership mapping, and remediation processes.
• Participate in on-call support and incident response activities involving exposed credentials, credential abuse, and software supply chain security events.

Skills

Application Security

DevSecOps

IAM

Cloud Security

Security Operations

GitHub

GHAS

Secrets Scanning

CI/CD Platforms

Python

PowerShell

JavaScript

Scripting & Automation

Tools

GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub

CI/CD

Job description

Vanguard seeks a seasoned security professional to protect credentials, keys, and tokens across its software supply chain. You will partner with engineering and IAM teams to implement GHAS, automate secret controls, and monitor exposure trends while advancing secure SDLC practices.

You will contribute to remediation, governance, and incident response for sensitive secrets, with a focus on measurable improvements in risk posture and security maturity.