AppSec & Secrets Management Specialist - Hybrid & Impact

Vanguard; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a security-focused professional in Charlotte, NC, to help protect client assets and data by securing secrets and enabling proactive risk controls. You will collaborate with engineering, IAM, and platform teams to implement robust credential lifecycle practices and automation.

The role emphasizes applications security, DevSecOps, and cloud security, with a focus on metrics, dashboards, and governance across the SDLC. Hybrid work model supported.

Qualifications

• Experience in Application Security, DevSecOps, IAM, Cloud Security, or Security Operations.

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

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

GitHub

GHAS

Secrets Scanning

CI/CD platforms

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a security-focused professional in Charlotte, NC, to help protect client assets and data by securing secrets and enabling proactive risk controls. You will collaborate with engineering, IAM, and platform teams to implement robust credential lifecycle practices and automation.

The role emphasizes applications security, DevSecOps, and cloud security, with a focus on metrics, dashboards, and governance across the SDLC. Hybrid work model supported.