Secrets Management Platform Engineer (R-00196)

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical coverage

401k with company match

Paternity/Maternity leave

Training and certifications

Paid holidays

Job summary

True Zero Technologies is seeking a Secrets Management Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate a centralized enterprise secrets platform across applications, services, cloud environments, and CI/CD workflows. The role focuses on onboarding thousands of assets, automating credential provisioning, and enforcing strict access controls.

UK/US GovCloud readiness and strong cryptography foundations, including PKI and certificate lifecycle, underpin the security posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline related to cybersecurity or IT.
• Experience with an enterprise secrets platform such as CyberArk or Vault.
• Experience with AWS Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store and KMS.
• Strong understanding of IAM, RBAC, policy-based access and least-privilege.
• Hands-on automation using Python, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Experience integrating secrets-management with CI/CD and DevSecOps.
• Experience with PKI, certificate lifecycle, encryption and key management.
• Knowledge of container security and cloud-native workloads.

Responsibilities

• Onboard applications and services into a centralized secrets platform like CyberArk or Vault.
• Design secure credential provisioning, storage, retrieval, rotation, revocation and retirement.
• Integrate AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store with enterprise apps.
• Develop and enforce least-privilege IAM policies for secrets access.
• Automate secrets workflows using Python, Terraform, Ansible.
• Embed secrets-management in CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps.
• Support secrets integration for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud workloads.
• Manage PKI and certificate processes including issuance, renewal and revocation.
• Eliminate hard-coded credentials from code, configs, scripts, and deployments.
• Maintain centralized auditing, logging, monitoring, and policy governance.

Skills

Zero Trust principles

Least privilege

DevSecOps collaboration

Troubleshooting

Security controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related

Tools

CyberArk

HashiCorp Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

AWS KMS

Kubernetes

Job description

True Zero Technologies, a veteran-owned small business, was founded on the principle that the purposeful enablement of people and technology in an organization directly ties to the quality of its outcomes. True Zero recognizes that those outcomes begin and end with our people, and that is what we have built a community of like-minded, driven, and passionate individuals and innovators who are aligned in a common goal of delivering top-tier services to our customers. Our culture and commitment have been recognized through numerous accolades, including being named one of theBest Places to Workin 2023 in two categories ("Prosperous and Thriving" ($5MM–$50MM in gross revenue) and "Mid-Atlantic Region" (DC, DE, MD, NC, VA, WV)), and again in 2025 as aBest Places to Workhonoree. In addition, True Zero earned coveted spots on theInc. 5000list of fastest-growing companies in America in2022, 2023, and 2025, a testament to our sustained growth driven by our people-first approach and unwavering dedication to excellence.

The Secrets Management Platform Engineer designs, implements, and operates a centralized enterprise secrets management platform that securely manages credentials, keys, certificates, tokens, and other sensitive authentication material across applications, services, cloud environments, and CI/CD workflows.

This role is responsible for onboarding thousands of applications and services into the secrets management platform; automating credential provisioning, retrieval, and rotation; integrating secrets management into DevSecOps and cloud-native workloads; enforcing least-privilege access; and maintaining compliance through auditing, monitoring, policy enforcement, and lifecycle governance.

The engineer will support AWS GovCloud and Zero Trust requirements by eliminating hard-coded credentials, implementing strong identity-based access controls, using FIPS 140-2/3 validated cryptography, and integrating with AWS KMS and approved secrets-management services.

Job Responsibilities

• Onboard applications, services, users, and machine identities into a centralizedsecrets management platform such as CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault, based on the selected enterprise platform.
• Design and implement secure processes forcredential provisioning, storage, retrieval, rotation, revocation, and retirement.
• IntegrateAWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Storewith enterprise applications and cloud-native workloads.
• Develop and enforceleast-privilege Identity and Access Management policiesfor access to secrets, credentials, encryption keys, and privileged services.
• Automate secrets management workflows usingPython, Terraform, Ansible, and approved infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Integrate secrets management intoCI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflowsto eliminate manually managed or embedded credentials.
• Design and support secrets integration for containers, Kubernetes-based workloads, cloud services, virtual machines, and application platforms.
• Implement and maintainPKI and certificate managementprocesses, including certificate issuance, renewal, rotation, revocation, and expiration monitoring.
• Eliminatehard-coded credentials, static passwords, embedded API keys, and unmanaged secretsfrom source code, configuration files, scripts, pipelines, and application deployments.
• ImplementFIPS 140-2/3 validated cryptographic controlsand integrate secrets-management solutions withAWS KMS in AWS GovCloudwhere required.
• Configure authentication methods and access policies for users, applications, workloads, and machine identities.
• Implement dynamic or short-lived credentials where supported to reduce reliance on long-lived static secrets.
• Maintain centralized auditing, logging, monitoring, and alerting for secrets access, administrative activity, credential rotation, and policy violations.
• Develop and enforce governance standards for secret ownership, naming, classification, access, rotation frequency, expiration, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with application, cloud, platform, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps teams to integrate secrets-management capabilities into enterprise architectures and development workflows.
• Troubleshoot authentication, authorization, credential rotation, certificate, API, and platform integration issues.
• Maintain technical documentation, onboarding procedures, platform standards, operational runbooks, and governance processes.
• Continuously improve platform availability, scalability, automation, security controls, onboarding efficiency, and operational resilience.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience implementing or administering an enterprisesecrets management platform such as CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience withAWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, and AWS KMS.
• Strong understanding ofIdentity and Access Management, role-based access control, policy-based access, and least-privilege principles.
• Hands-on automation experience usingPython, Terraform, and/or Ansible.
• Experience integrating secrets-management solutions withCI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps workflows, and automated deployment processes.
• Experience withPKI, certificate management, encryption, key management, and certificate lifecycle automation.
• Understanding of container and cloud security, including secrets integration for Kubernetes, containerized applications, and cloud-native workloads.
• Experience designing credential rotation, dynamic secrets, machine identity, and privileged-access workflows.
• Familiarity withFIPS 140-2/3 validated cryptographyand cryptographic requirements for government or regulated environments.
• Experience implementing controls to identify and eliminatehard-coded credentials and unmanaged secrets.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles, particularlyleast privilege, identity-based access, continuous verification, and credential minimization.
• Experience supporting AWS GovCloud, government, defense, or other regulated cloud environments is preferred.
• Experience with centralized logging, monitoring, auditing, compliance reporting, and security-event integration.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, governance, automation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Certifications:

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associateor applicableCyberArk Defender/Sentry certification, based on the selected secrets-management platform
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)orCertified Information Security Manager (CISM)

We’re actively searching for talented security and technology practitioners who are ready to experience the True Zero difference. As a True Zero team member, you'll enjoy:

• - Competitive salary, paid twice per month
• - Best in class medical coverage
• - 100% of medical premiums covered by True Zero
• - Company wide new business incentive programs
• - Contribution Incentives (i.e. white papers, blog posts, internal webinars, etc.)
• - 3 weeks of PTO starting + 11 Paid Holidays Annually
• - 401k Program with 100% company match on the first 4%
• - Monthly reimbursement of Cell Phone and Home Internet costs
• - Paternity/Maternity Leave
• - Investment in training and certifications to broaden and deepen your technical skills