Secrets Management Solutions Architect — Remote/EU

Control Plane Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous salary + Bonus

33 days paid holiday including UK bank

Enhanced Parental Leave

Private Medical and Dental Insurance

Training budget for personal develop."

Job summary

ControlPlane Limited is seeking an OpenBao Consultant with a strong hybrid background in technical consulting, secrets management, and pre-sales solution architecture. You will be the technical expert across UK/EU time zones, joining sales calls, leading discovery, and designing tailored OpenBao architectures to drive deals.

The role involves hands-on migrations and implementations, collaborating with a distributed team to ensure seamless handovers, and contributing to internal security

Qualifications

• Deep, practical experience with either OpenBao or HashiCorp Vault (architectural design, high availability, dynamic secrets, PKI, auto-unseal, namespace/policy design, and identity engines).
• Hands-on experience with secrets migration, lifecycle management, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Proven track record in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or customer-facing consulting role.
• Strong ability to translate complex security and compliance concepts into business value for executives and engineers.
• Confident presentation skills guiding clients through complex sales cycles and building technical trust.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and container orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, or OpenShift).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Familiarity with CI/CD security automation and pipeline hardening.
• Willingness to code/script in Golang, Python, or CLI tooling.
• Must be located in the UK or Europe with right to work (remote or hybrid London).
• Ability to align work hours with European client time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical demonstrations, PoCs, and architectural evaluations to showcase value and overcome objections.
• Architect, deploy, and harden OpenBao/Vault solutions across cloud-native and on-prem environments.
• Design scalable OpenBao/Vault architectures in collaboration with account teams and draft technical proposals.
• Join sales calls and discovery sessions, aligning pre-sales designs with delivery capabilities.

Skills

Kubernetes

Pre-sales

Solution architecture

Security leadership

Technical presentations

Tools

OpenBao

HashiCorp Vault

Terraform

OpenTofu

Golang

Python

Job description

ControlPlane Limited is seeking an OpenBao Consultant with a strong hybrid background in technical consulting, secrets management, and pre-sales solution architecture. You will be the technical expert across UK/EU time zones, joining sales calls, leading discovery, and designing tailored OpenBao architectures to drive deals.

The role involves hands-on migrations and implementations, collaborating with a distributed team to ensure seamless handovers, and contributing to internal security