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You will define the technical direction for enterprise secrets management services, including Vault, machine identities, service accounts, certificates, keys and API secrets, while reducing cyber risk and enabling secure digital transformation across the organisation.\nAdditionally, you'll own the evolution of Vault as an enterprise security service, expand adoption across technology platforms, and drive initiatives to identify, scan and eliminate unmanaged secrets from repositories, applications and infrastructure. You will champion automation, improve resilience and observability, establish secure-by-default patterns, and embed secrets management into modern engineering practices across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, OpenShift and CI/CD ecosystems.\nYou will provide technical leadership across governance, standards and control uplift, partnering closely with Identity, Privileged Access, Cloud and Platform Engineering teams. 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