Senior HashiCorp Vault Architect – Remote Cloud & Security

Tetra Tech; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LS Technologies, a Tetra Tech Company, seeks a senior System Engineer specializing in HashiCorp Vault to lead enterprise secrets management across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. You will design, deploy, and sustain Vault architectures, implement dynamic credentials, and integrate with AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and CI/CD pipelines.

The role requires extensive Vault experience, strong security governance, and ability to mentor teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent).
• 8+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, systems/platform engineering, or related disciplines.
• 5+ years with AWS or comparable cloud platforms.
• Extensive hands-on Vault experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Vault authentication, policies, secret engines, dynamic credentials, PKI, encryption, and audit capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as FAA's senior technical SME for HashiCorp Vault and enterprise secrets-management architecture.
• Design, implement, configure, and administer highly available Vault environments across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Develop enterprise Vault architectures with centralized secrets management, dynamic credentials, encryption, PKI, and application authentication.
• Establish Vault policies, namespaces, authentication methods, secret engines, roles, access controls, and governance standards.
• Integrate Vault with AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, applications, databases, and enterprise services.
• Implement dynamic secrets and short-lived credentials to reduce static credential reliance and improve security.
• Develop and maintain Vault PKI capabilities for automated certificate issuance, rotation, and revocation.
• Build automated secret rotation and lifecycle-management processes.
• Develop Vault backup, recovery, DR, and HA strategies.
• Establish monitoring, logging, auditing, and operational procedures for Vault.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Security architecture

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

AWS

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

LS Technologies, a Tetra Tech Company, seeks a senior System Engineer specializing in HashiCorp Vault to lead enterprise secrets management across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. You will design, deploy, and sustain Vault architectures, implement dynamic credentials, and integrate with AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and CI/CD pipelines.

The role requires extensive Vault experience, strong security governance, and ability to mentor teams.