Cybersecurity Senior Engineer – Non Human Identity (Remote)

Job ID

Req193358

Location

Atlanta, GA

Category

Technology

Pay Range*

$120,000.00 – $160,000.00

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Company Overview

What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.

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Position Purpose

Position Purpose:

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Non‑Human Identity (NHI) partners with Architecture, IAM, cloud, platform, DevOps, and application teams to design, build, and operate enterprise‑scale discovery, governance, and lifecycle automation for non‑human identities (NHIs). NHIs include service accounts, API tokens, cloud IAM roles, automation identities, CI/CD identities, and AI agents across on‑premises, hybrid, and multi‑cloud environments. This role focuses on automation, collaboration, and risk reduction, helping modernize authentication patterns and reduce reliance on long‑lived credentials.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

Non‑Human Identity Discovery & Automation

  • Work with IAM, Architecture, and platform teams to design and operate automated discovery capabilities for NHIs across servers, applications, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Contribute to development of automation and tooling (Python, PowerShell) to:
    • Discover NHIs across infrastructure and environments
    • Parse configuration files, logs, APIs, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code to identify embedded or hard‑coded credentials
    • Enrich NHI metadata including ownership, purpose, environment, and lifecycle state
  • Partner with engineering teams to automate NHI hygiene activities such as ownership validation, lifecycle tracking, and reporting

NHI Lifecycle & Governance

  • Collaborate with IAM, Architecture, cloud, and ITSM teams to design and integrate NHI lifecycle workflows, including onboarding, access reviews, credential rotation, and decommissioning
  • Integrate NHI workflows with enterprise platforms, including: IAM and PAM solutions, Cloud IAM services, Secrets management platforms, ITSM and workflow tools
  • Support enforcement of clear ownership, purpose, and lifecycle accountability for NHIs
  • Assist with enterprise access reviews, attestations, and audit evidence generation

Partner with application, platform, and DevOps teams to analyze authentication flows and refactor legacy patterns toward modern, password‑less NHI designs, including managed identities, OAuth client credentials, and short‑lived tokens.

  • Provide NHI context to security monitoring and incident response teams to support investigations involving service account misuse, anomalous automation behavior, or credential compromise
  • Apply data‑driven techniques such as pattern recognition, baselining, and anomaly indicators to analyze NHI usage trends and detect drift or misuse.

AI Agent Identity Governance

  • Partner with architecture and platform teams to support onboarding and governance of AI agents as non‑human identities
  • Help ensure AI agents have clearly defined ownership, scoped access, and documented lifecycle expectations

Basic PKI Responsibilities (Foundational)

  • Support certificate‑based NHIs (e.g., TLS, mTLS, client authentication) as part of broader NHI governance
  • Integrate NHI discovery and lifecycle workflows with enterprise PKI and certificate management platforms
  • Ensure certificates and private keys follow approved standards for issuance, rotation, and expiration, without direct ownership of PKI infrastructure
  • Collaborate across security, cloud, and platform engineering teams to align NHI controls with Zero Trust principles and THD security standards.
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides, and support audit and compliance activities through NHI evidence and reporting.
  • Continuously improve the NHI program by identifying automation opportunities, reducing operational toil, and improving accuracy, coverage, and maturity of non‑human identity controls.

Key Responsibilities:

  • 100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Align, Problem Solving – Design automation workflows and capabilities in support of data collection, investigation and incident response Develop threat hunting and data analysis strategy and capabilities Identify and propose new technologies, methodologies and/or approaches to detecting malicious activity Utilize indicators to scope and respond proactively to emerging threats Design, build, configure, maintain and monitor cybersecurity threat defense capabilities and user access management

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

  • This Position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager
  • This Position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

  • No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

  • Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

  • Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Must be eighteen years of age or older.
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Minimum Education:

  • The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

  • 3

Competencies:

  • Action Oriented
  • Collaborates
  • Communicates Effectively
  • Customer Focus
  • Drives Results

Pay Range

The pay range for this position is between $120,000.00 – $160,000.00*

* Starting wage may vary based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the position being offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. The Home Depot offers additional competitive and non-financial benefits, which may include a performance-based bonus program or a profit sharing program depending on position.

Work Location

Remote/virtual – Associates in remote roles have the flexibility to complete their job responsibilities primarily from home. Depending on the position, a remote role may be entirely virtual, or it may require living within a commutable distance of an assigned company office to support occasional, in-person responsibilities.

Building Location

GA01
VIRTUAL
Atlanta, GA

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Online Assessments

As part of our application process for this role, there is an online assessment that you will need to complete. You’ll be directed to the link to start the assessment immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the assessment link, you’ll have 96 hours to complete it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as needed during your 96-hour time frame. The assessment should only take about 20 minutes to complete.

During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about how you approach work and various other work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including: how you work as part of a team; whether you are responsible, dependable and thorough; and your ability to learn new skills. For Store/Merchandising roles we will ask a few additional questions around how you help customers and drive sales.

If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here.

Benefits

  • Parental Leave

    Paid parental leave to bond with your new addition

  • Profit-Sharing Bonuses

    Merit increases and performance bonuses

  • Employee Stock Purchase Program

    Home Depot stock at a 15% discount through payroll deductions

  • Retirement Plans

    401(k) savings plan with company matching

  • Health & Wellness

    Medical, dental, vision insurance plans and more

  • Tuition Reimbursement

    Tuition reimbursement, scholarships, and discounted tuition rates

Paid Time Off Benefits

Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year. FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service. For positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only: Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater. For positions in Seattle only: Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.

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