AppSec & Secrets Management Expert

Vanguard; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health and wellness care

Work-life balance

Investment in your future

Job summary

Vanguard’s Global Risk and Security division is seeking a security-focused professional to strengthen secrets management, credential protection, and software supply chain security. You will investigate, triage, and remediate exposed credentials, collaborate with IAM and engineering teams, and help implement GHAS secret protection and detection controls.

This hybrid role offers opportunities to build governance, dashboards, and security controls across Cloud and DevSecOps, driving secure SDLC

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.

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 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

Tools

GitHub

GHAS

Secrets Scanning

CI/CD

Job description

Vanguard’s Global Risk and Security division is seeking a security-focused professional to strengthen secrets management, credential protection, and software supply chain security. You will investigate, triage, and remediate exposed credentials, collaborate with IAM and engineering teams, and help implement GHAS secret protection and detection controls.

This hybrid role offers opportunities to build governance, dashboards, and security controls across Cloud and DevSecOps, driving secure SDLC