Senior Security Consultant, NHI (Non-Human Identity)

GuidePoint Security; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GuidePoint Security LLC is seeking a Senior Security Consultant, NHI to advance discovery, governance and security of non-human identities across enterprise, cloud and DevOps environments. This role will shape discovery, inventory, risk scoring and remediation programs while delivering exceptional client service.

You will leverage modern NHI platforms such as Oasis Security, Clutch Security and Entro to discover, monitor and remediate identities, while aligning with Zero Trust, least privilege

Qualifications

• Experience securing non-human identities (service accounts, machine identities, API identities).
• Strong knowledge of Zero Trust and least privilege.
• Experience integrating NHI with IAM, PAM, CIEM, CSPM, SIEM, and DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior subject matter expert for Non-Human Identity security across service accounts, application identities, machine identities and more.
• Develop and implement discovery, inventory, classification, ownership, lifecycle management, and governance for NHI.
• Conduct assessments to identify unknown, orphaned, excessive, over-privileged, stale identities and credentials.
• Define and implement security controls aligned with Zero Trust and secrets management.
• Leverage Oasis Security, Clutch Security, and Entro to discover, analyze, monitor and remediate non-human identities.

Skills

NHI security

Zero Trust

Identity security

Secrets management

Cloud security

DevSecOps

IAM

PAM

CIEM

Tools

Oasis Security

Clutch Security

Entro

Job description

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation's top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

General Description

We are looking for a skilled Senior Security Consultant, NHI to support the discovery, governance, and security of non-human identities — service accounts, application and machine identities, workload identities, secrets, tokens, and certificates — across enterprise, cloud, and DevOps environments. This role will engage in the development of NHI discovery and inventory, risk scoring and prioritization, and lifecycle and remediation programs while providing "Wow Them" service to clients and/or internal customers or co-workers. The Security Analyst, NHI will be required to demonstrate strong identity security, cloud security, and secrets management skills, lead by influence, and strong business/financial acumen to drive the use of progressive non-human identity security and Zero Trust programs that will align the delivery business objectives and priorities.

About the Non-Human Identity (NHI) Security Practice

The Non-Human Identity (NHI) Security practice is responsible for securing the rapidly growing population of machine and workload identities that power modern enterprise, cloud, and automation environments. We discover, classify, govern, monitor, and remediate non-human identities and their credentials across the organization. Our team of NHI security analysts, identity architects, and consultants focuses on service and application accounts, workload and machine identities, API identities, secrets, tokens, certificates, and cloud-native credentials — applying Zero Trust, least privilege, and secrets management principles with modern NHI platforms such as Oasis Security, Clutch Security, and Entro. We partner with application owners, DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to reduce credential sprawl, eliminate excessive privilege, and deliver measurable, lasting identity security outcomes.

• Establishing enterprise-wide NHI discovery, inventory, ownership, and lifecycle governance across cloud, on-premises, SaaS, and DevOps environments.
• Reducing non-human identity risk through risk scoring, remediation of orphaned, stale, and over-privileged identities, and secrets protection.
• Integrating NHI security with IAM, PAM, CIEM, CSPM, SIEM, and DevSecOps platforms to secure machine-to-machine and emerging AI agent identities.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior subject matter expert for Non-Human Identity (NHI) security, including service accounts, application identities, machine identities, workload identities, API identities, secrets, tokens, certificates, and other machine-to-machine credentials.
• Develop and implement NHI discovery, inventory, classification, ownership, lifecycle management, and governance processes across enterprise environments.
• Conduct assessments to identify unknown, orphaned, excessive, over-privileged, stale, and high-risk non-human identities.
• Define and implement NHI security controls aligned with Zero Trust, least privilege, identity security, and secrets management principles.
• Leverage modern NHI security platforms, preferably Oasis Security, Clutch Security, and Entro, to discover, analyze, monitor, and remediate non-human identities.
• Develop NHI risk scoring and prioritization models based on