Cybersecurity Senior Engineer - Non Human Identity (Remote)

Home Depot

Georgia

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer for Non‑Human Identity (NHI) governance across on‑premises, hybrid, and multi‑cloud environments. You will design automated discovery, enrichment, and lifecycle workflows for NHIs like service accounts, API tokens, and CI/CD identities.

Collaborating with IAM, cloud, platform, and DevOps teams, you will develop tooling (Python, PowerShell) to detect credentials, enforce ownership, and reduce long‑lived credentials, while integrating with

Qualifications

Experience in automation tooling for NHIs is preferred.
Ability to parse configuration files, logs, APIs, and IaC for credentials.
Strong collaboration with IAM, Architecture, cloud, and DevOps teams.

Responsibilities

Design and implement automated discovery for NHIs across on‑prem and cloud environments.
Build and maintain automation tooling to identify embedded credentials and enrich NHI metadata.
Support lifecycle workflows: onboarding, rotation, reviews, and decommissioning.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Automation

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

IAM

Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Non‑Human Identity (NHI) partners with Architecture, IAM, cloud, platform, DevOps, and application teams to design, build, and operate enterprise‑scale discovery, governance, and lifecycle automation for non‑human identities (NHIs). NHIs include service accounts, API tokens, cloud IAM roles, automation identities, CI/CD identities, and AI agents across on‑premises, hybrid, and multi‑cloud environments. This role focuses on automation, collaboration, and risk reduction, helping modernize authentication patterns and reduce reliance on long‑lived credentials.

Preferred Qualifications:

Non‑Human Identity Discovery & Automation

Work with IAM, Architecture, and platform teams to design and operate automated discovery capabilities for NHIs across servers, applications, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines
Contribute to development of automation and tooling (Python, PowerShell) to:
- Discover NHIs across infrastructure and environments
- Parse configuration files, logs, APIs, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code to identify embedded or hard‑coded credentials
- Enrich NHI metadata including ownership, purpose, environment, and lifecycle state
Partner with engineering teams to automate NHI hygiene activities such as ownership validation, lifecycle tracking, and reporting

NHI Lifecycle & Governance

Collaborate with IAM, Architecture, cloud, and ITSM teams to design and integrate NHI lifecycle workflows, including onboarding, access reviews, credential rotation, and decommissioning
Integrate NHI workflows with enterprise platforms, including: IAM and PAM solutions, Cloud IAM services, Secrets management platforms, ITSM and workflow tools
Support enforcement of clear ownership, purpose, and lifecycle accountability for NHIs
Assist with enterprise access reviews, attestations, and audit evidence generation

Partner with application, platform, and DevOps teams to analyze authentication flows and refactor legacy patterns toward modern, password‑less NHI designs, including managed identities, OAuth client credentials, and short‑lived tokens.

Provide NHI context to security monitoring and incident response teams to support investigations involving service account misuse, anomalous automation behavior, or credential compromise
Apply data‑driven techniques such as pattern recognition, baselining, and anomaly indicators to analyze NHI usage trends and detect drift or misuse.

AI Agent Identity Governance

Partner with architecture and platform teams to support onboarding and governance of AI agents as non‑human identities
Help ensure AI agents have clearly defined ownership, scoped access, and documented lifecycle expectations

Basic PKI Responsibilities (Foundational)

Support certificate‑based NHIs (e.g., TLS, mTLS, client authentication) as part of broader NHI governance
Integrate NHI discovery and lifecycle workflows with enterprise PKI and certificate management platforms
Ensure certificates and private keys follow approved standards for issuance, rotation, and expiration, without direct ownership of PKI infrastructure
Collaborate across security, cloud, and platform engineering teams to align NHI controls with Zero Trust principles and THD security standards.
Produce and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides, and support audit and compliance activities through NHI evidence and reporting.
Continuously improve the NHI program by identifying automation opportunities, reducing operational toil, and improving accuracy, coverage, and maturity of non‑human identity controls.

Key Responsibilities:

100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Align, Problem Solving - Design automation workflows and capabilities in support of data collection, investigation and incident response Develop threat hunting and data analysis strategy and capabilities Identify and propose new technologies, methodologies and/or approaches to detecting malicious activity Utilize indicators to scope and respond proactively to emerging threats Design, build, configure, maintain and monitor cybersecurity threat defense capabilities and user access management

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

This Position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager
This Position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions: