Senior Vault Engineer: Cloud-Native, Kubernetes

International Business Machines Corporation; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a seasoned engineer to design, build, and operate Vault as a service. You will ensure secure, highly available secrets management across Kubernetes and OpenShift environments, blending software development, security engineering, reliability, and cloud platform operations.

This hands-on role requires shipping production-grade features, mentoring engineers, and participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building production-grade services in Go with strong testing practices.
• Deep experience managing Kubernetes workloads and platform components.
• Experience designing reliable, scalable distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience operating cloud services with reliability objectives and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Vault as a service with secure, scalable deployment.
• Lead end-to-end project delivery from design to troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to align with real-world requirements.
• Participate in hiring and on-call rotations to support production needs.

Skills

Golang

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

IaC

DevOps

Monitoring

Incident response

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a seasoned engineer to design, build, and operate Vault as a service. You will ensure secure, highly available secrets management across Kubernetes and OpenShift environments, blending software development, security engineering, reliability, and cloud platform operations.

This hands-on role requires shipping production-grade features, mentoring engineers, and participating in on-call rotations.