About the Role
This Senior Technical Engineer position is a key member of a technical engineering team, enabling secure and scalable application onboarding to the organization's Secrets Management and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) platforms within a hybrid-cloud environment. The role primarily focuses on HashiCorp Vault-based solutions, involving significant hands-on engineering, deep technical troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration. The Senior Technical Engineer will act as a subject matter expert, supporting Vault operations and infrastructure, and guiding application teams in integrating secrets, certificates, and authentication mechanisms across enterprise and cloud environments. This role spans the entire technical lifecycle, from intake and analysis to solution design, configuration, build, automation, and ongoing operational support, ensuring secure, reliable, and compliant integrations.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, design, code, test, and implement technical solutions.
- Provide general production monitoring and support.
- Meet defined scope, target dates, and budgets with minimal defects.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across IT, product, analytics, and business teams to gather requirements and provide technical solutions.
- Monitor work against production schedule and provide progress updates.
- Report issues or technical difficulties to leadership.
- Document technical processes and procedures.
- Participate in technical reviews and knowledge sharing sessions.
- Collaborate on the design and implementation with architecture to ensure solution alignment to enterprise goals and standards.
- Mentor other associate and intermediate technical engineers.
- Perform technical analysis and provide insights to support decision-making.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest relevant technologies and industry best practices.
- Perform other duties as assigned or requested.
Requirements
- 5 years of experience in analyzing, designing, coding, testing, and implementing technical solutions.
- 5 years of experience in providing general production support.
- 5 years of experience in meeting defined scope, target dates, and budgets with minimal defects.
- 5 years of technical problem solving.
- 5 years of solution implementation.
- 5 years of team/project collaboration.
- 5 years of basic computer science concepts and principles.
- 5 years of experience with common operating systems.
- 5 years of experience with development languages/scripting.
- 2+ years of experience with HashiCorp Vault.
- HashiCorp Vault Associate Certification.
- Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable solution architectures through automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with source control (GitLab).
- Experience working with applications and services hosted inside Google, Amazon, and Microsoft public cloud infrastructure.
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining containerized environments (Cloud Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift).
- Familiarity with Agile workflows.
- Familiarity with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
Skills
- Achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment.
- Adaptability to take on diverse tasks and projects.
- Strong analytical skills with a focus on detail and accuracy.
- Interest and ability to learn other technologies as needed.
- Technical proficiency with a range of data tools and technologies.
- Willingness to learn new skills.
- Strong track record in designing, implementing, and/or supporting large-scale technical solutions.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Demonstrated passion for user experience and improving usability.
- Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in cross-functional environments.
- Experience and willingness to mentor junior technical engineers.
- Ability to speak and write English fluently and idiomatically.
- Solid security foundations through the full application stack.
- Ability to document processes and break down complex tasks verbally and through diagramming.
- Scripting experience and concepts in BASH, PowerShell, Ansible, and Python.
- Strong code literacy, with the ability to read and understand code and automation authored by others.
- Kubernetes and OpenShift container technologies.
- Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform, GitLab, or other automation technologies.
- Knowledge of infrastructure concepts, such as OS (Linux, Windows), hypervisors, and networking.
- Understanding of authentication and PKI concepts with understanding of Active Directory/LDAP, key/certificate management and token.
Location
- Office- or Remote-based
Work Type
- Office- or Remote-based
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $94,200.00 - $151,000.00
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