About the Role

Join Applied Materials as a PAM & Secrets Management Engineer to lead privileged access management and secrets management initiatives across our global enterprise infrastructure. You''ll architect and operate enterprise-scale PAM solutions (CyberArk, evaluating alternatives) and HashiCorp Vault, working at the intersection of security, DevOps, and cloud platforms to protect critical systems and enable secure development.

Key Responsibilities

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Design, implement, and manage enterprise PAM solutions at scale (500+ concurrent sessions, 2K+ daily logins, 2.5K+ targets)
- Operate and maintain CyberArk self-hosted setting lead evaluation of alternatives (Delinea, BeyondTrust, CyberArk Privilege Cloud)
- Architect privileged session management (PSM) for RDP, SSH with native client support and passwordless credential injection
- Implement automated account discovery and onboarding workflows (Windows local, AD, Linux/Unix accounts)
- Configure session recording, monitoring, and alerting for compliance and security




- Troubleshoot and resolve PAM infrastructure stability issues (eliminating outages)

Secrets Management
- Architect and operate HashiCorp Vault Enterprise at scale across multi-cloud environments
- Implement Vault secrets engines: KV v2, Dynamic Secrets (LDAP, Azure, databases), PKI, Transit Encryption
- Design and deploy Vault authentication methods: OIDC/JWT, Kubernetes, AppRole, AWS IAM, Azure AD
- Configure Vault policies and namespaces for multi-tenant secret isolation
- Integrate Vault with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) for secure secret injection
- Implement Vault Agent and sidecar injectors for application secret delivery
- Configure Vault auto-unseal with cloud KMS (AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP Cloud KMS)
- Manage Vault high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning
- Implement secret rotation automation for databases, cloud credentials, and API keys

📌 PAM and Secrets Management Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Applied Materials
📍 Bengaluru