HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise Edition) / IAM Security Engineer

About the role

Location: Culpeper, VA. Seeking a HashiCorp Vault / IAM Security Engineer with strong expertise in securing and managing enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault, 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test and perform OS and software upgrades, prepare for and perform business continuity activities and address vulnerabilities
• Interact with vendor and internal teams to ensure availability of, maintenance, enhancements to, and integrated with all the company 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 company 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

Requirements

• HashiCorp Vault Enterprise administration (deployment in HA, troubleshooting, monitoring, hardening, integrations)
• Terraform hands-on experience (module development)
• Red Hat Linux (RHEL 8.x) experience (troubleshooting, monitoring, hardening)
• RHEL 9 System Administration
• Ansible experience (developing roles, playbooks, AWX or Ansible Tower)
• Python & Scripting

Qualifications

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

Skills

• 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

Pay

$71-76/hour

Schedule

Hybrid: 3-days/week Onsite