Seeking a Sr. HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Edition Engineer with strong expertise in securing and managing enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise Edition), Terraform, RHEL, and Ansible, and will contribute to the deployment, hardening, and automation of security solutions. This role requires a proactive individual who can troubleshoot complex issues, integrate platforms, and develop automation workflows.

***The role requires 2-days onsite in Culpeper, VA (preferred) or Manassas, VA***

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, test and perform OS and software upgrades, prepare for and perform business continuity activities and address vulnerabilities
• Interact with Vendor and Swift internal teams to ensure availability of, maintenance, enhancements to, and integrated with all the Swift ecosystems (MS-AD, monitoring, backup, SIEM, …) of SSMS /Vault infrastructure
• Investigate and resolve issues that impacts or could potentially impact the availability of SSMS and its Vault infrastructure
• Work with team to expand services and visibility by continuing to review offering, speaking with stakeholders and assisting new application teams to adopt and automate
• Assist application team(s) with onboarding digital secrets to the Secret Management including reviewing environment for authentication method, secrets engine to onboard secrets, assist in developing compliance reporting, policy review/enforcement, end to end lifecycle management activities
• Work with the vendors’ delivery teams, maintaining a detailed design, request the pre-requisites and deploy the selected solutions/features in a highly available, resilient and secure configuration. Ensure the solution is integrated with all the Swift ecosystems (MS-AD, monitoring, backup, SIEM, …)
• Enhance and provide regular reporting and accountability on key metrics and agreed upon deliverables and ensure that the team is performing according to them
• Maintain a customer guide that can be reused by the application team(s) for future onboarding actions
• Maintain a runbook for the Secret Management service infrastructure and work with the administrators to maintain and enhance the administrators guide
• On-call on a rotational basis

Required Skills (Must-Have):

• Hands-on HashiCorp Vault Enterprise administration (deployment in HA, troubleshooting, monitoring, hardening, integrations).
• Terraform hands-on experience (module development).
• Red Hat Linux experience (troubleshooting, monitoring, hardening).
• Ansible experience (developing roles, playbooks, AWX or Ansible Tower).

Preferred Skills (Differential):

• Go development (especially for Vault plugin development).
• Jenkins (pipeline development and automation).
• Splunk (query creation, dashboards, and alerting).
• ELK Stack (integration, queries, alerts, dashboards).
• SELinux (policy development and troubleshooting).

Certifications (Nice to Have):
HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate
Hashicorp Vault Operations Progressional
Terraform Associate Certification

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Adaptability to rapidly changing environments and technologies.
• Attention to detail and commitment to security best practices.

Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in security management and automation.
3+ years of experience with Hashicorp Vault Enterprise edition