Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer

US Bank; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer to support a production-grade secrets-management platform used by internal applications to securely store, retrieve, and rotate credentials.

You will build, secure, and operate Vault within a large enterprise, collaborating with development and infrastructure teams. Responsibilities include implementing automation, ensuring high availability, and integrating Vault with Kubernetes, IAM, and other security controls.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering HashiCorp Vault in production.
• Strong background in information security, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Experience with secrets management, credential security, password rotation, and access controls.
• Scripting/automation experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with APIs and integrations between applications and security platforms.
• Experience partnering with developers and understanding application workflows.
• Knowledge of platform architecture, resiliency, scalability, load balancing, and high-availability.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer, maintain, patch, and upgrade the HashiCorp Vault platform.
• Support secure credential storage, retrieval, and automated password rotation for internal apps.
• Troubleshoot integrations, APIs, authentication, permissions, DB connectivity, load balancing, and infra dependencies.
• Develop scripts and automation to improve administration, reliability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to understand Vault consumption and resolve issues.
• Contribute to architecture, modernization, scalability, resiliency, security, and HA improvements.
• Coordinate with Kubernetes and infrastructure teams for enterprise deployments.
• Apply IAM and privileged-access principles to platform permissions and credential security.
• Support production incidents and maintain platform availability.
• Share Vault knowledge and best practices as SME; create technical docs.

Skills

Vault Admin

Security Engineering

Secrets Management

APIs & Integrations

Kubernetes

Git Workflows

Automation

Cross-functional

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Kubernetes

GitHub

CI/CD

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

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.

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 (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.

Disability Accommodations

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