Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer
U.S. Bancorp
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- Posted
- Aug 28, 2026
Skills
About this role
At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
Job Description
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Location expectations This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior HashiCorp Vault Engineer to support and enhance an enterprise secrets-management platform used by internal applications to securely store, retrieve, and rotate credentials. This is a hands-on engineering position requiring direct experience administering and supporting HashiCorp Vault in a production environment. This person will own key aspects of the HashiCorp Vault platform, including configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrades, automation, application integrations, troubleshooting, and architecture improvements. They will partner with application developers, information security teams, infrastructure engineers, and Kubernetes teams to deliver a secure, stable, resilient, and scalable credential-management service.
Main Responsibilities
Engineer, administer, maintain , patch, and upgrade the HashiCorp Vault platform. Support secure credential storage, retrieval, and automated password rotation for internal applications. Troubleshoot application integrations, APIs, authentication, permissions, database connectivity, load balancing, and infrastructure dependencies. Develop and maintain scripts and automation that improve platform administration, reliability, and efficiency. Partner with application development teams to understand Vault consumption patterns and resolve integration issues. Contribute to platform architecture, modernization, scalability, resiliency, security, and high-availability improvements. Work with Kubernetes and infrastructure teams to support enterprise deployments and integrations. Apply IAM and privileged-access principles to platform permissions, access controls, and credential security. Support production incidents and help maintain platform availability and operational stability. Serve as a technical subject matter expert and share Vault knowledge and best practices with team members. Create and maintain technical and end-user documentation Must Have Skills: Hands-on experience administering, engineering, and supporting HashiCorp Vault in a production environment. Strong information security, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering background. Experience with secrets management, credential security, password rotation, permissions, and access controls. Scripting, coding, or automation experience using Python, Bash, PowerShell , or a comparable language. Experience using and troubleshooting APIs and integrations between applications and security platforms. Experience partnering with software developers and understanding application workflows. Understanding of platform architecture, resiliency, scalability , load balancing, and high-availability environments. Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized application environments. Hands-on experience using Git and Git-based platforms (Git Lab /Git Hub ) for source code repository management, including multi-branch pull/merge request workflows and code review. Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
Skills: Python automation experience. Experience with Terraform,