DevSecOps Specialist

About the role

The DevSecOps Specialist is responsible for implementing and operating enterprise secrets scanning solutions, integrating secrets detection into CI/CD pipelines and PR workflows, configuring detection rules, patterns, and policy thresholds, identifying, triaging, and prioritizing exposed secrets, driving remediation with engineering teams, building automation for secrets detection, alerting, and response workflows, ensuring reliable and scalable execution of scanning across pipelines, maintaining monitoring, alerting, and operational health of secrets platforms, troubleshooting pipeline/tooling issues and performing root cause analysis, partnering with IAM, pipeline, and AppSec teams for credential lifecycle governance, improving developer experience by minimizing friction and providing clear remediation guidance, and contributing to continuous improvement and automation of AppSec/security processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum four years related work experience. Experience in IT security or application development preferred.
• Undergraduate degree in related field or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• PREFERRED: Security certifications such as ISC2 CISSP, GIAC Security, Essentials Certification (GSEC), GIAC Penetration Tester Certification (GPEN), GIAC Web App Pen Tester (GWPN), or Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).

Special Factors

Sponsorship: Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard: At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work: Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

Our commitment to you: Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life.

Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:

• Financial wellness
• Physical wellness
• Personal wellness

Our commitment to equal employment opportunity: Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination, prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy, Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status. In addition, Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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