Security Analyst, NHI (Non-Human Identity)

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GuidePoint SecurityCybersecurity
Remote; U.S. based onlyFull-TimeSenior
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Experience
5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, IAM, PAM, cloud security, application security, or a related security discipline; 2+ years of experience working with non-human identities, service accounts, application identities, machine identities, workload identities, or secrets management.
Required Skills
AWSPythonGCPKubernetesAzure

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, IAM, PAM, cloud security, application security, or a related security discipline.
  • 2+ years of experience with non-human identities, service accounts, application identities, machine identities, workload identities, or secrets management.
  • Strong understanding of the NHI security lifecycle, including discovery, classification, ownership, risk assessment, governance, monitoring, remediation, and retirement.
  • Hands-on experience with NHI security, secrets management, PAM, IAM, or identity security platforms.
  • Experience discovering and analyzing NHIs across cloud, on-premises, SaaS, application, DevOps, and infrastructure environments.
  • Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, and/or GCP identity and access management.
  • Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD environments, including GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, containers, and automation platforms.
  • Strong understanding of secrets management and credential security, including vaulting, rotation, expiration, and detection of exposed or hardcoded credentials.
  • Experience analyzing identity relationships and access paths to identify excessive privilege, lateral movement opportunities, toxic combinations, and potential attack paths.
  • Strong understanding of Zero Trust, least privilege, identity security, and defense-in-depth principles.
  • Preferred experience with Oasis Security, Clutch Security, and Entro or comparable NHI security platforms.
  • Up to 10% travel.

Responsibilities

  • Develop NHI discovery, inventory, classification, ownership, lifecycle management, and governance processes across enterprise environments.
  • Assess non-human identities to identify unknown, orphaned, excessive, over-privileged, stale, and high-risk accounts and credentials.
  • Define and implement security controls aligned with Zero Trust, least privilege, identity security, and secrets management principles.
  • Use NHI security platforms to discover, analyze, monitor, and remediate non-human identities.
  • Develop risk-scoring and prioritization models based on privileges, exposure, usage, ownership, credential type, business criticality, and potential blast radius.
  • Identify and remediate credential sprawl, hardcoded secrets, excessive privileges, unused credentials, unmanaged identities, and insecure authentication mechanisms.
  • Integrate NHI security capabilities with IAM, PAM, CIEM, CSPM, SIEM, ITSM, secrets management, and DevSecOps platforms.
  • Analyze authentication and activity data for anomalous or suspicious non-human identity behavior.
  • Develop automation, standards, procedures, dashboards, and metrics for NHI discovery, remediation, credential rotation, ownership, and policy compliance.
  • Collaborate with application, development, infrastructure, DevOps, cloud engineering, security, PAM, and IAM teams; support reviews, audits, strategy, and technology evaluations.
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