HashiCorp Vault Engineer

Onsite presence is required six times per month.

Rate: 190–220 PLN net/hour.

Description

We are seeking an experienced HashiCorp Vault Engineer to join the PAM Engineering Function within a global Identity and Access Management (IAM) Technology organisation. The person in this role will be responsible for the on-premises HashiCorp Vault service, supporting backend infrastructure, leading improvement initiatives, and contributing to the stability, automation, and resilience of critical privileged access management (PAM) services. The role is part of a dedicated Vault pod and involves collaboration with globally distributed engineering teams to support Vault adoption and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain the on-premises HashiCorp Vault environment, ensuring availability and secure configuration.
• Lead backend engineering initiatives, upgrades, remediations, and configuration improvements for Vault services.
• Design and implement best-practice Vault architectures and instance provisioning patterns.
• Develop documentation, runbooks, and self-service materials for internal engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Improve service health, automation, operational resilience, and runbook-driven incident response.
• Act as subject matter expert for Vault in solution design and strategic programmes, providing technical guidance to project teams.
• Build and maintain relationships with business stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams to align service delivery with requirements.
• Support incident response, crisis call coordination, and out-of-hours incident or change activities when required.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of enterprise monitoring and alerting for Vault and related infrastructure.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault, preferably in on-premises deployments.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with HashiCorp Terraform and infrastructure automation tooling.
• Proven experience with release automation tools such as Ansible AAP and Jenkins.
• Solid background in backend infrastructure management, including upgrades, remediation, configuration improvements, and troubleshooting design inefficiencies.
• Experience managing crisis calls and delivering root cause analysis and remediation for complex incidents.
• Practical experience designing enterprise-level monitoring and alerting solutions, such as Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, and SCOM.
• Familiarity with large-scale enterprise technologies and Agile environments using Jira and Jira Service Desk.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to translate stakeholder requirements into technical solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with coding, scripting, and GitHub best practices.
• Familiarity with audit and compliance processes related to secrets management and privileged access.
• Experience with Scrum Master responsibilities or managing Jira boards.
• Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly and work independently.
• Strong written communication, influencing, and technical report preparation skills.
• Experience working in multicultural, distributed teams.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on high-profile, strategic IAM and PAM initiatives across a large organisation.
• Exposure to modern security, automation, and monitoring technologies.
• Flexible working model with a hybrid schedule aligned to the onsite requirement.
• Supportive international engineering environment and collaboration with global teams.
• Benefits package including Multisport Card and Luxmed.