NHI Security Program Lead (Machine Identities)

Stryker; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 136,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Life insurance

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Manager for Non-Human Identity to lead enterprise programs securing machine and workload identities across cloud and on-prem environments. You will guide the identity lifecycle and partner with Platform Engineering, Cloud, DevOps, Security Operations, and Application teams to reduce risk from hard-coded and unmanaged credentials.

Lead and mentor analysts and engineers, establish controls, and ensure compliance with SOX, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in identity, cloud, or cybersecurity, including a minimum 3 years focused on machine or non-human identity security.
• Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Conjur, Azure Key Vault, Venafi, or comparable secrets management and machine identity platforms.
• Experience with PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and automated credential rotation.
• Experience securing cloud workload identities and service principals in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code security, people leadership, Zero Trust, and least-privilege controls.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise non-human identity security strategy, roadmap, operating model, governance, and reporting.
• Establish identity and access controls for API credentials and emerging AI agent identities.
• Support SOX, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF compliance and audit requirements through non-human identity risk reporting.
• Establish and operate discovery and inventory processes for service accounts, secrets, certificates, keys, and workload identities across the enterprise.
• Deploy and operate secrets management and machine identity platforms.
• Manage PKI and govern certificate issuance, renewal, rotation, revocation, and decommissioning.
• Automate secret rotation and eliminate hard-coded or embedded credentials in code and pipelines.
• Secure managed identities, IAM roles, service principals, and other cloud workload identities using least-privilege access and short-lived credentials.
• Integrate non-human identity controls into CI/CD pipelines, DevOps workflows, cloud platforms, and IaC practices.
• Lead analysts and engineers by setting standards, priorities, performance expectations, and accountability for program delivery.
• Drive cross-functional adoption of service account onboarding, ownership, attestation, and decommissioning practices.
• Assess identity risk, analyze complex security issues, and translate findings into practical controls and remediation priorities.
• Communicate non-human identity risks, decisions, and program requirements to technical teams, business partners, and audit stakeholders.
• Apply Zero Trust and least-privilege principles across machine, workload, cloud, API, and AI agent identities.

Skills

Leadership

Zero Trust

Identity security

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity/IS/Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

CyberArk Conjur

Azure Key Vault

Venafi

Job description

Stryker is seeking a Manager for Non-Human Identity to lead enterprise programs securing machine and workload identities across cloud and on-prem environments. You will guide the identity lifecycle and partner with Platform Engineering, Cloud, DevOps, Security Operations, and Application teams to reduce risk from hard-coded and unmanaged credentials.

Lead and mentor analysts and engineers, establish controls, and ensure compliance with SOX, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF.