Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer

Senior Hashi Corp Vault Engineer

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U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Hashi Corp 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 Hashi Corp Vault in a production environment.

This person will own key aspects of the Hashi Corp 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.

Main Responsibilities:

• Engineer, administer, maintain, patch, and upgrade the Hashi Corp 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

Must Have

Skills:

• Hands-on experience administering, engineering, and supporting Hashi Corp 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, Power Shell, 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 (Git Lab /Git Hub) 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 Have

Skills:

• 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., Git Lab CI/CD, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins)
• Experience supporting Vault upgrades, redesigns, DR or performance replication, and disaster recovery.
• Cloud platform engineering or cloud security experience.
• Broad Linux, networking, and…