Senior HashiCorp Vault Platform Engineer

International Business Machines Corporation; City of Poughkeepsie (NY, AR); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a seasoned engineer to design, build, and operate HashiCorp Vault as a service. You will deliver secure, highly available secrets management across Kubernetes and OpenShift, combining software development, security, reliability, and cloud platform operations.

You will apply advanced engineering skills to prototype features, lead reliability initiatives, and mentor peers while collaborating with internal teams and customers to meet real-world requirements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Go development with production-grade services and strong testing practices.
• Deep Kubernetes experience across workloads, networking, storage, and security.
• Experience designing scalable, highly available distributed systems on major cloud platforms.
• Solid IaC and automation-first operational practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate HashiCorp Vault as a service.
• Ensure secure, highly available, and compliant secrets management at scale.

Skills

Golang

Kubernetes

Cloud architecture

Reliability engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Openshift

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

GitOps (Argo CD/Flux)

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a seasoned engineer to design, build, and operate HashiCorp Vault as a service. You will deliver secure, highly available secrets management across Kubernetes and OpenShift, combining software development, security, reliability, and cloud platform operations.

You will apply advanced engineering skills to prototype features, lead reliability initiatives, and mentor peers while collaborating with internal teams and customers to meet real-world requirements.