Cybersecurity Analyst – Secrets Management

TechWish; Vienna (VA); Sur place; USD 80 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A technology firm is seeking a Secrets Management Technical Analyst responsible for analyzing and documenting security workflows, processes, and business requirements. Key responsibilities include monitoring credential security, supporting identity management, and ensuring policy compliance. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in IT or Cybersecurity and have experience with secret scanning technologies and IAM concepts. This position is crucial for maintaining security integrity across the organization, making it ideal for proactive security professionals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in IT, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• Experience with secret scanning technologies and security procedures.
• Ability to serve as a trusted advisor to teams.

Responsabilités

• Discover and analyze alerts from secret‑scanning platforms.
• Support NHI management and policy compliance.
• Monitor secret rotation compliance.
• Collaborate with teams to remediate compromised credentials.

Connaissances

Knowledge of IT policies

Experience with secret‑scanning technologies

Understanding of foundational security concepts

Ability to translate technical findings into business recommendations

Familiarity with IAM concepts

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field

Outils

CyberArk

AWS

OCI

Azure

Description du poste

The Secrets Management Technical Analyst is responsible for discovering, compiling, researching, analyzing, and documenting data, requirements, workflows, controls, and business processes within Enterprise Security Product & Services. This role serves as a subject matter expert and liaison across technical and business teams, supporting cybersecurity compliance and secure credential‑handling practices. The analyst will support Secrets Management operations, ensuring rapid remediation of exposed credentials identified by automated scanning tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Discover, review, validate, and analyze alerts generated by secret‑scanning platforms to identify insecurely stored or exposed secrets.
• Support Non Human Identity (NHI) management, including governance, lifecycle oversight, and alignment of system/service accounts with enterprise security policies.
• Monitor and enforce secret rotation compliance, ensuring credentials are rotated according to policy and assisting teams in meeting regulatory and internal rotation requirements.
• Coordinate with application teams, business owners, system owners, and engineering partners to remediate compromised credentials and enforce secure rotation workflows.
• Collaborate with security engineers to validate findings, confirm ownership, and assess the impact of policy or process changes.
• Track findings end‑to‑end, ensuring timely resolution and accurate attribution of ownership.
• Assist in improving scanning accuracy and optimizing discovery and remediation pipelines in partnership with engineering teams.
• Serve as liaison between IAM and business partners to ensure cohesive remediation and secure credential usage practices.
• Prepare and deliver metrics and dashboards related to exposed secrets, mean‑time‑to‑detect/remediate, repeat offenders, and security posture trends.
• Maintain procedural documentation and create automation runbooks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or other related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training or experience.
• Knowledge of IT policies, security procedures, and identity governance frameworks.
• Understanding of foundational security concepts (AAA, authentication fundamentals, Zero Trust).
• Experience with secret‑scanning technologies, automated discovery tools, or credential hygiene workflows.
• Familiarity with IAM concepts, incident response processes, and secure access management for Enterprise Security Product & Services.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience generating security metrics, supporting risk mitigation, or assembling audit evidence.
• Exposure to Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools such as CyberArk.
• Ability to translate technical findings into clear, actionable business recommendations.
• Process‑improvement mindset with a focus on security, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Ability to serve as a trusted advisor to development, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Experience with secret management on the Multicloud (AWS, OCI, Azure).