Secrets Management Platform Engineer (R-00196)
Summary
Builds and operates a centralized secrets-management platform (e.g., HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk) to automate credential rotation, enforce least-privilege access, and integrate with AWS KMS, CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
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 the Best Places to Work in 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 a Best Places to Work honoree. In addition, True Zero earned coveted spots on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America in 2022, 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 centralized secrets management platform such as CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault, based on the selected enterprise platform.
- Design and implement secure processes for credential provisioning, storage, retrieval, rotation, revocation, and retirement.
- Integrate AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store with enterprise applications and cloud-native workloads.
- Develop and enforce least-privilege Identity and Access Management policies for access to secrets, credentials, encryption keys, and privileged services.
- Automate secrets management workflows using Python, Terraform, Ansible, and approved infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- Integrate secrets management into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflows to 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 maintain PKI and certificate management processes, including certificate issuance, renewal, rotation, revocation, and expiration monitoring.
- Eliminate hard-coded credentials, static passwords, embedded API keys, and unmanaged secrets from source code, configuration files, scripts, pipelines, and application deployments.
- Implement FIPS 140-2/3 validated cryptographic controls and integrate secrets-management solutions with AWS KMS in AWS GovCloud where 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 enterprise secrets management platform such as CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault.
- Experience with AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, and AWS KMS.
- Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management, role-based access control, policy-based access, and least-privilege principles.
- Hands-on automation experience using Python, Terraform, and/or Ansible.
- Experience integrating secrets-management solutions with CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps workflows, and automated deployment processes.
- Experience with PKI, 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 with FIPS 140-2/3 validated cryptography and cryptographic requirements for government or regulated environments.
- Experience implementing controls to identify and eliminate hard-coded credentials and unmanaged secrets.
- Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles, particularly least 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 Associate or applicable CyberArk Defender/Sentry certification, based on the selected secrets-management platform
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or Certified 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