Director, Secrets Management – Non-Interactive Access

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop engineering and product teams delivering enterprise secrets management.
• Own the enterprise platform, roadmap, delivery, resilience.
• Establish clear operating rhythms (standups, planning, retrospectives) and an inclusive, learning culture.
• Enable auto‑vaulting pipelines; build scalable onboarding and discovery patterns.
• Ensure platform hardening, compliance, audit evidence, DR/IR readiness, and continuous risk reduction.
• Design secure multi‑tenant patterns (AppRole, Kubernetes auth, OIDC/JWT, AWS IAM, Azure MSI) with least privilege and short‑lived credentials.
• Enable dynamic/ephemeral secrets (Database, PKI, SSH, Cloud) and cryptographic services (Transit, Transform) with policy‑as‑code (Sentinel).
• Harden the platform (CIS benchmarks where applicable), implement automated configuration and upgrades using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Implement auto‑vaulting pipelines and secret discovery to onboard applications at scale with paved paths and reference implementations.
• Federate/cascade secrets from Vault to other vaults and cloud stores (Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and others) with lifecycle governance.
• Provide self‑service APIs/CLIs/agents (Vault Agent/Injector) and SDKs; integrate with CI/CD, containers, and serverless platforms.
• Partner with application, cloud, and data platform teams to remove hard‑coded secrets and migrate legacy secret stores.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 3+ years direct people leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Hands‑on engineering experience implementing and operating HashiCorp Vault Enterprise in production.
• Expertise with Vault core components.
• Experience with Terraform/IaC, policy‑as‑code, and operational automation.
• Experience integrating secrets with Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or similar.
• Strong communication, stakeholder influence, and product delivery skills.