Sr. HashiCorp Vault Engineer

TEKsystems
$70.00 - $90.00 / hr
life insurance, sick time, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, Arkansas, Lowell
Nov 09, 2024
Description: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Systems Engineer with expertise in HashiCorp Vault and a strong background in information security to join the Team with our partner and client in Financial Services. This is a remote opportunity for a 6-month contract to hire. The ideal candidate will design, implement, and maintain secure infrastructure solutions focused on secrets management, data encryption, and access control, leveraging Vault's capabilities. This role plays a critical part in securing our systems and ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices. This person is a Sr. HashiCorp Vault Engineer who will effectively own their Vault configuration and manage it for a large financial services organization. They have another team who manages uptime (deployments and keeping it green), but his team will own the configuration within Vault. Why is this position open? They're now using Vault for tokenization. There are two separate instances (1. CDE (Card Data Environment) 2. Managing secrets and tokenization). Justus needs top level support because they're teaching Cary Parker's architecture team what modern architecture looks like. This candidate will need to be a Vault expert with at least 4 years direct engineering experience with the tool. Looking for previous software engineering, code development, SecOps engineer managing infrastructure, etc. Additional Skills & Qualifications: Design, deploy, and manage HashiCorp Vault infrastructure to securely manage secrets, tokens, and encryption keys across multiple environments (on-premise and cloud). Implement identity and access management (IAM) policies, integrating with various systems (LDAP, OAuth, etc.) to ensure appropriate access control. Collaborate with security, DevOps, and IT teams to develop robust security policies and enforce best practices for handling sensitive data. Ensure high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery for Vault clusters and related infrastructure. Continuously evaluate security risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance requirements related to data encryption, secrets management, and access control. Conduct security audits and assessments to ensure compliance with industry standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST. Automate tasks related to Vault configuration, scaling, and monitoring using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, and others. Integrate Vault with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) for dynamic secrets management and encryption services. Provide mentorship to junior engineers and act as a subject matter expert on Vault and security topics. Monitor and optimize Vault performance, ensuring system reliability and minimal downtime. Experience Level: Expert Level Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: * Medical, dental & vision * Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital * 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available * Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) * Short and long-term disability * Health Spending Account (HSA) * Transportation benefits * Employee Assistance Program * Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) [https://www.teksystems.com/en/careers/benefits](https://www.teksystems.com/en/careers/benefits). About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.