Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer – Automation & Security

U.S. Bank; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

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

This hands-on role requires experience administering Vault, plus collaboration with developers, security, and Kubernetes teams. The successful candidate will own Vault configuration, maintenance, upgrades, automation, and integrations, ensuring security, stability, and high availability across enterprise

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 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 workflows.
• 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, database connectivity, load balancing, and infra dependencies.
• Develop and maintain scripts and automation to improve platform administration, reliability, and efficiency.
• Partner with 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 and credential security.
• Support production incidents and help maintain platform availability and stability.
• Serve as a technical SME and share Vault knowledge with team members.
• Create and maintain technical and end-user documentation.

Skills

Vault administration

Security platform engineering

Secrets management

Kubernetes

Git/GitHub/GitLab

Python scripting

APIs & integrations

Cross-functional collaboration

Infrastructure as Code

Communication

Tools

Git tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

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

This hands-on role requires experience administering Vault, plus collaboration with developers, security, and Kubernetes teams. The successful candidate will own Vault configuration, maintenance, upgrades, automation, and integrations, ensuring security, stability, and high availability across enterprise