Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer

About this role

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

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 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.  

Main 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  

Must Have Skills:  

• 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 (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.,   GitLab CI/CD,   GitHub Actions,   Azure DevOps , Jenkins )  

• Experience supporting Vault upgrades, redesigns,   D R 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.  

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our  disability accommodations for applicants .

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 .

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, nat

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