Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer

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

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a hands-on HashiCorp Vault engineer to design, secure, and operate Vault across production systems in Minnesota. You will collaborate with DevOps and security teams to ensure secret management, high availability, and robust access controls.

Ideal candidates have strong platform engineering background, experience with APIs, scripting, and IaC tools, and a proven ability to work with developers on secure integrations. Join a team driving modernization and secure infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering HashiCorp Vault in a production environment (Vault admin).
• Strong information security, infrastructure, or platform engineering background.
• Experience with secrets management, credential security, password rotation, permissions, and access controls.
• Scripting, coding, or automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Experience troubleshooting APIs and integrations between apps and security platforms.
• Experience partnering with software developers and understanding application workflows.
• Understanding platform architecture, resiliency, scalability, load balancing, and high-availability environments.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized app environments.
• Hands-on experience using Git and Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub) for code review.
• Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer, maintain, patch, and upgrade the Vault platform.
• Support secure credential storage, retrieval, and automated password rotation for internal applications.
• Troubleshoot application integrations, APIs, authentication, permissions, etc.
• Develop and maintain scripts and automation to 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 with team members.
• Create and maintain technical and end-user documentation.

Skills

Vault administration

Security engineering

Secrets management

Password rotation

Access controls

API integration

Developer collaboration

Platform architecture

Kubernetes

Git workflows

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

Kubernetes

Git/GitHub

GitLab

Terraform

Ansible

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.

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.

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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 Section19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, RegZ, RegG, 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.

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.