Director, Secrets Management & Non‑Interactive Access

Fidelity•Durham, NC

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Secrets Management & Non‑Interactive Access leads the enterprise program and platform for centralized secrets management and machine-to-machine (non‑interactive) authentication. This technical leadership role owns the HashiCorp Vault platform to support diverse runtime environments. The role combines people leadership, product ownership, and deep hands‑on technical expertise in HashiCorp Vault to deliver secure-by-default experiences for developers and platform teams while meeting regulatory and audit requirements.

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.
Strong communication, stakeholder influence, and product delivery skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating secrets with Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or similar.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop engineering and product teams delivering enterprise secrets management.
Own the enterprise platform, roadmap, delivery, resiliency.
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.