Staff IAM Engineer, Non-Human Identity
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Role
The Staff IAM Engineer Non-Human Identity is responsible for securing and managing all non-human identities including service accounts application identities machine credentials APIs bots and workloads across on-prem cloud and crypto infrastructure. This role ensures that automated and machine-based identities follow the same governance lifecycle and least-privilege principles as human users. You will design systems that enable secure authentication secrets management and access provisioning for automated services APIs and DevOps pipelines. This role directly protects sensitive financial data crypto custody environments and transaction systems from privilege misuse credential leakage and insider or supply chain threats.
What Youll Do
Identity Architecture & Engineering
- Design implement and maintain a Non-Human Identity (NHI) framework governing all service accounts API tokens certificates and machine credentials.
- Implement centralized secrets management using tools such as HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager
- Build integrations with CI/CD pipelines and cloud services (AWS GCP Azure) to enforce automated credential rotation and JIT provisioning.
- Define and implement tagging ownership and classification models for non-human identities.
- Develop scalable onboarding processes for applications workloads and bots that require secure authentication.
Lifecycle Management & Governance
- Develop automated workflows for creation rotation deactivation and certification of service accounts and API keys.
- Partner with developers and DevOps to transition hard-coded credentials to secure vaults.
- Establish policies for key rotation frequency credential expiration and certificate renewal.
- Integrate NHI lifecycle into IAM governance tools (Okta).
- Support quarterly access reviews and certification campaigns for non-human identities.
Automation & Integration
- Build automation using APIs Python PowerShell or Terraform to manage credentials and monitor access.
- Integrate non-human identity telemetry into SIEM/SOAR platforms for anomaly detection.
- Implement visibility dashboards to track total NHI inventory owners last use and compliance status.
- Deploy Just-in-Time (JIT) credential provisioning for ephemeral workloads and containers (Kubernetes Lambda ECS etc.).
Security & Risk Management
- Enforce least privilege and zero-trust principles for machine access.
- Monitor for unused or excessive service accounts and remediate over-permissioned credentials.
- Support incident response teams with forensics on compromised API keys or tokens.
- Define detection logic for credential misuse or non-standard access patterns.
- Partner with Application Security to integrate secure NHI handling into SDLC.
Compliance & Audit
- Maintain audit trails for credential issuance usage and rotation events.
- Produce compliance reports for SOX SOC 2 PCI DSS FFIEC and crypto-custody audits.
- Collaborate with internal audit and compliance teams to validate NHI control effectiveness.
- Document architecture data flows SOPs and exception processes for NHI management.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Evaluate emerging NHI management solutions (e.g. SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identity federation cloud-native secrets stores).
- Lead proof-of-concepts to modernize credentialless or short-lived identity methods.
- Advocate for security automation and the reduction of static credentials across the enterprise.
What Youll Need
Education & Experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity or related discipline.
- 36 years of experience in IAM DevSecOps or Security Engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience with non-human identity or secrets management tools
- Familiarity with cloud IAM concepts (AWS IAM Roles Azure Managed Identities GCP Service Accounts).
- Experience integrating IAM or secrets systems with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.
Technical Skills
- Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python PowerShell or Bash).
- Strong understanding of authentication standards (OIDC OAuth 2.0 SAML JWT).
- Knowledge of API security key rotation policies and service-to-service authentication.
- Familiarity with container and workload identities (Kubernetes ECS Lambda).
- Understanding of Zero Trust machine identity and certificate lifecycle management.
Preferred Certifications
- HashiCorp Certified Vault Associate
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
- Okta Certified Professional or Administrator
- (ISC)² Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) or CISSP
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
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