AppSec & Secrets Management Specialist — Hybrid Role

Vanguard Group; Lees (PA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a security-focused professional to join Global Risk and Security. The role centers on protecting credentials, secrets, and sensitive data across engineering teams, with emphasis on GHAS, secrets protection, and automation.

You will collaborate with IAM, platform, and AppSec teams to implement secure lifecycle practices, develop dashboards, and drive incident response readiness within a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

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

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

JavaScript scripting

Tools

GitHub

GHAS

Secrets Scanning

CI/CD platforms

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a security-focused professional to join Global Risk and Security. The role centers on protecting credentials, secrets, and sensitive data across engineering teams, with emphasis on GHAS, secrets protection, and automation.

You will collaborate with IAM, platform, and AppSec teams to implement secure lifecycle practices, develop dashboards, and drive incident response readiness within a hybrid work model.