Sr. Engineer, Machine Identity & Agentic AI Governance

About the Role

• Rapid adoption of AI agents is creating a surge in machine identities across systems (APIs, cloud, SaaS, data stores).
• These identities require provisioning, monitoring, and governance outside traditional human identity models.
• Hiring a Senior Engineer to own non-human identity (NHI) governance end-to-end.
• High-visibility, newly created role spanning:
• Identity
• Cloud
• Enterprise Applications
• Cybersecurity
• Responsibilities include:
• Leading rollout and operations of NHI governance platform
• Building workflows to enable safe AI adoption
• Establishing operational foundations for AI governance
• Focus is on engineering and operations—not policy writing.
• Direct impact on securing AI-enabled systems at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end deployment of NHI governance platform.
• Integrate with:
• Cloud platforms
• Identity providers
• SaaS tools
• Internal systems
• Partner with Identity Management to:
• Define NHI discovery and classification
• Assign ownership
• Manage lifecycle processes
• Build dashboards, alerts, and reporting for real-time visibility.

Machine Identity Governance

• Establish workflows for:
• Intake
• Assessment
• Approval of machine identities and credentials
• Support lifecycle management:
• Provisioning
• Credential rotation
• Access reviews
• Decommissioning
• Manage:
• Secrets
• Service accounts
• API keys
• OAuth tokens
• Identify and remediate orphaned or ungoverned credentials.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Act as a bridge between:
• Identity Management
• Cloud Operations
• Enterprise Applications
• Cybersecurity
• Translate security policies into automated controls.
• Enable governed adoption of AI (without slowing teams down).
• Represent organization in AI governance discussions.

Program Development

• Create and maintain:
• Runbooks
• Standards
• Documentation
• Track metrics for:
• Risk reduction
• Operational maturity
• Stay updated on:
• NHI risks
• AI security trends

What You Bring

• 5+ years in:
• Infrastructure, identity, or security engineering
• Experience with:
• Secrets management tools (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault)
• NHI or identity tooling
• Strong cloud knowledge:
• AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with authentication protocols:
• OAuth, OIDC, SAML, API keys
• Experience operationalizing enterprise security/identity platforms
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Clear and structured communication (written and verbal)

Nice to Have

• Experience with NHI/security platforms:
• Entro Security, Astrix, Elimity, etc.
• Exposure to:
• Agentic AI frameworks
• AI authentication models
• Certifications:
• CISSP, CCSP, or cloud security certs
• Industry experience:
• Media, publishing, or data-sensitive sectors

Why This Role

• Greenfield opportunity — build from scratch
• Strong executive support and investment
• High impact across all AI initiatives
• Collaborative environment with established teams across:
• Cloud
• Identity
• Cybersecurity