Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer
About The Position
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer to support and enhance an enterprise secrets-management platform used by internal applications to securely store, retrieve, and rotate credentials. This is a hands-on engineering position requiring direct experience administering and supporting HashiCorp Vault in a production environment. This person will own key aspects of the HashiCorp Vault platform, including configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrades, automation, application integrations, troubleshooting, and architecture improvements. They will partner with application developers, information security teams, infrastructure engineers, and Kubernetes teams to deliver a secure, stable, resilient, and scalable credential-management service.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience administering, engineering, and supporting HashiCorp Vault in a production environment.
- Strong information security, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering background.
- Experience with secrets management, credential security, password rotation, permissions, and access controls.
- Scripting, coding, or automation experience using Python, Bash, PowerShell ,or a comparable language.
- Experience using and troubleshooting APIs and integrations between applications and security platforms.
- Experience partnering with software developers and understanding application workflows.
- Understanding of platform architecture, resiliency, scalability, load balancing, and high-availability environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized application environments.
- Hands-on experience using Git and Git-based platforms (GitLab/GitHub) for source code repository management, including multi-branch pull/merge request workflows and code review.
- Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice To Haves
- Python automation experience.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure automation technologies.
- Experience utilizing source code repositories for application, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Policy as Code management.
- Experience automating application deployments or operational jobs using CI/CD pipeline platforms (e.g., GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Experience supporting Vault upgrades, redesigns, DR or performance replication, and disaster recovery.
- Cloud platform engineering or cloud security experience.
- Broad Linux, networking, and database-connectivity knowledge.
- Experience mentoring engineers or serving as a security-platform subject matter expert.
- Experience supporting critical security infrastructure in a large enterprise environment.
Responsibilities
- Engineer, administer, maintain, patch, and upgrade the HashiCorp Vault platform.
- Support secure credential storage, retrieval, and automated password rotation for internal applications.
- Troubleshoot application integrations, APIs, authentication, permissions, database connectivity, load balancing, and infrastructure dependencies.
- Develop and maintain scripts and automation that improve platform administration, reliability, and efficiency.
- Partner with application development teams to understand Vault consumption patterns and resolve integration issues.
- Contribute to platform architecture, modernization, scalability, resiliency, security, and high-availability improvements.
- Work with Kubernetes and infrastructure teams to support enterprise deployments and integrations.
- Apply IAM and privileged-access principles to platform permissions, access controls, and credential security.
- Support production incidents and help maintain platform availability and operational stability.
- Serve as a technical subject matter expert and share Vault knowledge and best practices with team members.
- Create and maintain technical and end-user documentation
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
