Core Responsibilities

• Investigate, validate, and triage exposed credentials, API keys, tokens, certificates, and other sensitive secrets using risk-based prioritization. 

• Partner with application teams to drive timely remediation, credential rotation, revocation, and secure replacement of exposed secrets. 

• Support the implementation and administration of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) Secret Protection, push protection, custom detection patterns, and enterprise scanning controls. 

• Define, document, and maintain secrets classification standards, severity models, response procedures, and governance processes. 

• Collaborate with IAM and platform teams to improve credential lifecycle management practices, including vault adoption, rotation controls, and privileged access management integration. 

• Develop dashboards, metrics, and reporting to measure secrets exposure trends, remediation effectiveness, SLA performance, and program maturity. 

• Support exception management workflows, bypass approvals, evidence collection, and audit readiness activities for secrets-related controls. 

• Work with engineering, AppSec, and security advisor teams to identify recurring exposure patterns and improve preventive controls. 

• Create developer-facing guidance, training materials, and best practices to promote secure secrets handling throughout the SDLC. 

• Identify automation opportunities through APIs, workflows, and AI-assisted capabilities to streamline detection, triage, ownership mapping, and remediation processes. 

• Participate in on-call support and incident response activities involving exposed credentials, credential abuse, and software supply chain security events. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Application Security, DevSecOps, IAM, Cloud Security, or Security Operations.

• Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), Secrets Scanning, and CI/CD platforms.

• Understanding of cloud credentials, API tokens, certificates, service accounts, and privileged access concepts.

• Knowledge of secure SDLC practices and software supply chain security principles.

• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, or similar technologies.

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, IAM, platform, and security teams. 

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.