Director, Secrets Management – Non-Interactive Access

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Director of Secrets Management leading secrets management at Fidelity with engineering team oversight and driving security architecture. Implementing HashiCorp Vault for secure authentication processes and compliance.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeDurham • North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudKubernetesTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

HashiCorp VaultTerraformInfrastructure as CodeKubernetesOIDCJWTAWS IAMAzure MSIcryptographic servicespolicy-as-code

Soft Skills

people leadershipcoachingperformance managementcareer developmentcommunicationstakeholder influenceproduct deliveryinclusive cultureoperating rhythmslearning culture