Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering

MSD; Rahway (NJ); On-site; USD 117,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

MSD is seeking a Privileged Access & Secrets Management Engineer to design, deploy, and operate HashiCorp Vault and privileged access capabilities across on‑prem and cloud environments. You will enable secure secrets delivery, rotation, and lifecycle management while collaborating with identity, automation, and application teams.

The role requires 5+ years of Vault experience, strong automation skills, and the ability to work within a large, matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in CS/IS or related field.
• 5+ years designing, deploying and supporting Vault in on-prem environments with CI/CD
• Strong understanding of secrets lifecycle management (dynamic secrets, engines, auth methods)
• Practical knowledge of privileged access management techniques (vaulting, rotation, least-privilege)
• Experience integrating security platforms with Windows/Linux, databases, cloud services, and APIs
• Ability to work in large, global, matrixed organizations and communicate across teams
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments.
• Develop reusable patterns, standards, and onboarding guidance for Vault and secrets management across teams.
• Support Vault integrations with CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, automation workflows, and application delivery processes.
• Enable secure injection, retrieval, rotation, and lifecycle management of secrets used by build, release, and runtime environments.
• Integrate PAM with enterprise applications, infrastructure and cloud platforms, and APIs.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and support production operations.
• Develop automation, standards, and operational processes to improve security and audit readiness.

Skills

Strong analytical

Troubleshooting

Effective communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Ability to manage multiple priorities

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

CI/CD Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Active Directory / Entra ID

Job description

Job Description

Privileged Access & Secrets Management Engineer (R3)

HashiCorp Vault & CI/CD Automation

Role Summary

Join our IT Risk Management & Security team and play a key role in protecting a global enterprise’s most critical systems, accounts, and secrets. As a Privileged Access & Secrets Management Engineer, you will design, deploy, and operate HashiCorp Vault and privileged access capabilities that reduce cyber risk and enable secure, automated secrets delivery. This role offers the opportunity to help shape enterprise privileged access and secrets management capabilities while working across identity, automation, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and support HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments.

• Develop reusable patterns, standards, and onboarding guidance for HashiCorp Vault and secrets management across application, infrastructure, and automation teams.

• Support HashiCorp Vault integrations with CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, automation workflows, and application delivery processes.

• Enable secure injection, retrieval, rotation, and lifecycle management of secrets used by build, release, and runtime environments.

• Integrate PAM with enterprise applications, infrastructure and cloud platforms, and APIs.

• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and support production operations.

• Develop automation, standards, and operational processes that improve security, efficiency, and improve audit readiness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience), preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments, including integrations with CI/CD tools, automation frameworks, APIs, and application deployment workflows.

• Strong understanding of secrets lifecycle management including dynamic secrets, secrets engines, and auth methods for service accounts, workloads, applications, and non-human identities.

• Practical knowledge of privileged account management techniques: vaulting, password rotation, secrets management, least-privilege access, and service account security.

• Experience integrating security platforms with Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, cloud services, applications, and APIs.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to change, and work effectively within large, global, matrixed organizations.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and explain technical concepts to varied technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar technologies.

• Hands-on experience with identity platforms such as Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, cloud identity management, etc.

• Familiarity with ServiceNow for change and incident management and experience automating tasks with PowerShell or similar technologies.

• Familiarity with NIST, ITIL, or related security frameworks.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, Security+, or similar credentials.

• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries.

• Knowledge of Zero Trust principles, cloud security, and modern identity security practices.

Required Skills:

Access Management Software, Access Management Software, Azure Active Directory (AD), Certificate Services, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Analytics, Cybersecurity Operations, Delivery of Security Applications, Design Applications, HashiCorp Vault, Identity Access Management (IAM), Incident Response, Information Assurance, Information Security, IT Security Architecture, Linux, Network Segmentation, Operational Technology (OT) Security, Red Hat Ansible, Security Analysis, Security Analytics, Security Controls, Security Evaluations, Security Fundamentals {+ 9 more}

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The salary range for this role is

$117,000.00 - $184,200.00