U.S. Bank

Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer

U.S. Bank$119K — $140K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault in production environments
  • Strong background in information security or platform engineering
  • Familiarity with secrets management and credential security protocols
  • Experience in scripting or automation with Python, Bash, or PowerShell
  • Proficient with troubleshooting APIs and integrations
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes and high-availability environments

Responsibilities

  • Engineer, maintain, patch, and upgrade the HashiCorp Vault platform
  • Support automated credential storage, retrieval, and rotation
  • Troubleshoot application and infrastructure integration issues
  • Develop scripts to improve platform reliability and efficiency
  • Collaborate with application developers to resolve integration challenges
  • Contribute to platform architecture and security enhancements
  • Assist in maintaining platform availability during production incidents

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision)
  • Life insurance options
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Generous parental leave and pregnancy disability benefits
  • 401(k) with employer contributions and retirement plans
  • Vacation time ranging from two to five weeks based on tenure
  • Up to 11 paid holidays
  • Adoption assistance program
  • Accrual of sick and safe leave up to 80 hours per year
Full Job Description
Job Description

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Location expectations
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

U.S. Bank is seeking a SeniorHashiCorpVault 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 supportingHashiCorpVault in a production environment.

This person will own key aspects of theHashiCorpVault 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 theHashiCorpVault 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 andmaintainscripts 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 andprivileged-accessprinciples to platform permissions, access controls, and credential security.

  • Support production incidents and helpmaintainplatform availability and operational stability.

  • Serve as a technical subject matter expert and share Vault knowledge and best practices with team members.

  • Create andmaintaintechnical and end-user documentation

Must Have Skills:

  • Hands-on experience administering, engineering, and supportingHashiCorpVault in a production environment.

  • Strong information security, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering background.

  • Experience withsecretsmanagement, credential security, password rotation, permissions, and access controls.

  • Scripting, coding, or automation experience using Python, Bash,PowerShell,ora comparablelanguage.

  • Experienceusing andtroubleshooting APIs and integrations between applications and security platforms.

  • Experience partnering with software developers and understanding application workflows.

  • Understanding ofplatform architecture, resiliency, scalability, loadbalancing, and high-availability environments.

  • Knowledge of Kubernetesandcontainerized 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 Have Skills:

  • Python automation experience.

  • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure automation technologies.

  • Experienceutilizingsource code repositories for application, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Policy as Code management.

  • Experience automating application deploymentsor operational jobs using CI/CD pipeline platforms (e.g.,GitLab CI/CD,GitHub Actions,Azure DevOps, Jenkins)

  • Experience supporting Vault upgrades, redesigns,DR orperformancereplication,anddisaster 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.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

  • 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

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

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