Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering

MSD • Rahway, NJ

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join our IT Risk Management & Security team and play a key role in protecting a global enterprise’s most critical systems, accounts, and secrets. As a Privileged Access & Secrets Management Engineer, you will design, deploy, and operate HashiCorp Vault and privileged access capabilities that reduce cyber risk and enable secure, automated secrets delivery. This role offers the opportunity to help shape enterprise privileged access and secrets management capabilities while working across identity, automation, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience), preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments, including integrations with CI/CD tools, automation frameworks, APIs, and application deployment workflows.
• Strong understanding of secrets lifecycle management including dynamic secrets, secrets engines, and auth methods for service accounts, workloads, applications, and non-human identities.
• Practical knowledge of privileged account management techniques: vaulting, password rotation, secrets management, least-privilege access, and service account security.
• Experience integrating security platforms with Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, cloud services, applications, and APIs.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to change, and work effectively within large, global, matrixed organizations.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and explain technical concepts to varied technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar technologies.
• Hands-on experience with identity platforms such as Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, cloud identity management, etc.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow for change and incident management and experience automating tasks with PowerShell or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with NIST, ITIL, or related security frameworks.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, Security+, or similar credentials.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust principles, cloud security, and modern identity security practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments.
• Develop reusable patterns, standards, and onboarding guidance for HashiCorp Vault and secrets management across application, infrastructure, and automation teams.
• Support HashiCorp Vault integrations with CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, automation workflows, and application delivery processes.
• Enable secure injection, retrieval, rotation, and lifecycle management of secrets used by build, release, and runtime environments.
• Integrate PAM with enterprise applications, infrastructure and cloud platforms, and APIs.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and support production operations.
• Develop automation, standards, and operational processes that improve security, efficiency, and improve audit readiness.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior