IAM Secrets Management Senior Engineer
MistThis role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Within HPE, our Operations, Legal and Admin teams work across the business, providing visible accountability and measurable outcomes. With a variety of roles and responsibilities these teams really connect the dots, giving us the essential insights, support and capability to accelerate our transformation to be the world’s edge to cloud company. Join us redefine what’s next for you.
About our Cybersecurity Team
Are you ready to make an impact with one of the world’s leading technology companies? HPE’s Cybersecurity team is where you can do just that. We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Senior Engineer – Secrets Management (HashiCorp Vault) to join our global Cybersecurity organization. If you’re passionate about securing credentials, automating access control, and building scalable enterprise solutions, this is the role for you.
What you’ll do:
About the Role
As a Senior Secrets Management PAM Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-wide secrets management solutions — with a primary focus on HashiCorp Vault. You will work closely with Cybersecurity Architects, IAM, PAM, and DevSecOps teams to deliver secure, scalable, and automated credential management across HPE’s hybrid infrastructure.
You will serve as a technical SME and hands-on implementer, ensuring seamless integration of secrets management with privileged access and identity platforms, while strengthening the company’s overall security posture.
Key Responsibilities
Implementation & Engineering
- Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault in production environments
- Proven experience in day-to-day Vault operations, including:
- Strong understanding and ability to clearly explain Vault architecture, including:
- Storage backends (e.g., Raft, Consul, or cloud-native backends)
- Vault sealing and unsealing processes - Auto-unseal using AWS KMS / Azure Key Vault (or equivalent)
- Hands-on experience with Vault authentication mechanisms, including below on high level (Kubernetes Authentication, AWS IAM Authentication, AppRole Authentication)
- Ability to choose and implement appropriate authentication methods based on application/workload needs
- Experience creating and managing Vault policies
- Strong experience managing static and dynamic secrets
- KV (Key-Value) Secrets Engine (v1 / v2)
- Dynamic secrets (e.g., database credentials, cloud credentials)
- Secret rotation and lifecycle management
- Clear understanding of when to use static vs dynamic secrets
- Experience monitoring Vault health, performance, and access activity
- Experience using Vault in DevSecOps workflows with respective to Hashicorp Vault.
Security & Compliance
- Enforce least-privilege access, policy-based control, and segregation of duties for secrets and credentials
- Maintain compliance with corporate and regulatory standards (SOX, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53)
- Partner with cybersecurity and audit teams to ensure effective logging, monitoring, and attestation of secrets management activities
- Conduct periodic reviews of Vault policies, ACLs, and access models to ensure continuous compliance
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
- Collaborate with IAM, PAM, and DevSecOps teams to align secrets management with enterprise identity strategy
- Identify and implement automation and efficiency improvements in secrets management and PAM processes
- Contribute to engineering documentation, knowledge articles, and operational runbooks
- Support training and knowledge transfer to operations and development teams
What you need to bring:
About You
You are a hands-on cybersecurity engineer with deep expertise in secrets management, privileged access, and identity operations. You enjoy building secure, automated, and resilient systems and thrive in complex enterprise environments. You’re detail-oriented, collaborative, and driven to continuously improve security and operational maturity.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years of experience in IT or cybersecurity, with 6+ years focused on secrets management, PAM
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, including configuration, replication, DR, policies, and secrets engines
- Experience integrating Vault with PAM tools (CyberArk, BeyondTrust) and DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes)
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform, REST APIs)
- Experience with cloud identity and secrets services (AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager)
- Working knowledge of authentication standards (OIDC, JWT, LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, OAuth2)
- Experience implementing Zero Trust and Just-in-Time access models
- Understanding of security compliance frameworks (SOX, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53)
- Preferred certifications: HashiCorp Certified Vault Associate, CyberArk Defender/Sentry, CISSP, or equivalent
Additional Skills:
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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