Platform Engineer - Hashi Vault IRC

Description

This role is all about building robust, scalable, and automated platform foundations. Your day‑to‑day may involve infrastructure provisioning, automation pipelines, platform reliability improvements, and building tooling to support wider engineering teams. We’re looking for someone who brings core platform engineering expertise, thrives in highly automated environments, and can flex across different aspects of the platform as priorities evolve.

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer, or SRE
• Strong background in Secrets Management using Hashi Vault
• Solid understanding of Dev Ops principles, CI/CD pipelines, and system automation.
• Strong grasp of platform reliability, resilience, and scalability best practices.
• Ability to work independently, adapt quickly, and collaborate effectively across engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills for both technical and cross‑functional stakeholders.

• Deploy and Maintain:
  Manage the lifecycle of Hashi Corp Vault clusters across multiple environments (Dev, Stage, Prod).
• High Availability:
  Ensure 99.9% uptime through proper configuration of storage backends (like Raft or Consul) and unseal workflows (Auto‑unseal via KMS/Cloud HSM).
• Upgrades & Scaling:
  Perform seamless version upgrades and scale the infrastructure to handle increasing request volumes.

• Engine Configuration:
  Implement and manage various secret engines, including KV (Key‑Value), Dynamic Secrets (AWS, Azure, SQL databases), and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) for automated certificate issuance.
• Policy Authoring:
  Write and enforce "Least Privilege" access policies using HCL (Hashi Corp Configuration Language) to ensure users and machines only see what they absolutely need.
• Auth Method Integration:
  Integrate Vault with identity providers such as LDAP, Okta, OIDC, and cloud‑native IAM roles.

• Onboarding:
  Act as the primary consultant for engineering teams to migrate hardcoded secrets/environment variables into Vault.
• Pipeline Integration:
  Secure CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins) by injecting secrets at runtime using Vault agents or injectors.
• SDK Support:
  Provide guidance to developers on using Vault APIs and client libraries (e.g., HVAC for Python, Spring Cloud Vault).

• Audit Logging:
  Monitor and analyze Vault audit logs to detect anomalous behavior or unauthorized access attempts.
• Disaster Recovery:
  Establish and regularly test Backup/Restore procedures and replication (Performance vs. DR replication).
• Secret Rotation:
  Automate the rotation of long‑lived credentials to minimize the blast radius of a potential leak.

• Our goal is to build an inclusive positive culture where everyone can feel comfortable being themselves, empowering our people to create their own high standards and therefore more value. We work together to promote fairness while recognising, valuing and embracing differences – providing a transparent support structure and generous training budget to help our people develop skills to progress their career.
  
  Our region also supports a hybrid model which can flex across a wide spectrum of working options determined by our business, customer and individual needs.
• You’ll benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plan, private healthcare (clinical and mental wellbeing), and discounted gym memberships. We offer a fantastic benefits package including a competitive pension scheme and recognition schemes through bonus/reward initiatives. Colleagues are entitled to an annual volunteering day – so you can take time to support a cause close to your heart. We also love to stay social at our trips to the zoo, quiz nights, sports events, theatre trips and much more.
• We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation.