Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer

Us Bank; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life Insurance

Disability

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

Holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer to own and enhance an enterprise secrets-management platform used to securely store, rotate, and retrieve credentials. You will partner with developers, security, and infra teams to deliver a scalable, secure credential-management service.

The role demands hands-on Vault experience in production, strong collaboration, and automation skills. Location requires working from a U.S. Bank site at least three days per week.

Qualifications

• 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 (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.

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.

Skills

Vault

Security

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

PowerShell

APIs

Git

Collaboration

Automation

Tools

GitLab/GitHub

Job description

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 (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.
• 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, DR 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, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

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

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

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