Principal Vault Engineer in Manchester

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Anaplan is looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the design and build of a new, multi‐region HashiCorp Vault platform. This is a pivotal role where you will serve as our Subject Matter Expert (SME), shaping the future of secrets management and governance for a platform that supports hundreds of engineers and top‐flight companies around the world. This is a hybrid role requiring at least two days a week in our Manchester office.

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of a new, multi‐region HashiCorp Vault platform on public cloud.
• Take ownership of the solution architecture, creating and maintaining high‐quality design documents and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Ensure platform resilience by developing and testing robust strategies for performance, Disaster Recovery (DR), and High Availability (HA).
• Act as the primary SME for the organisation on all aspects of Vault and modern secrets management, actively championing and evangelising best practices.
• Collaborate with and influence stakeholders, platform teams, and software engineers to ensure the smooth and secure integration of their services with the Vault ecosystem.
• Partner with Security to define the control requirements for the Vault platform (policy standards, privileged access, audit/evidence, compliance needs) and ensure designs meet those requirements.
• Lead regular security design reviews for Vault architecture decisions (authn/authz, policy model, namespaces/tenancy, seal strategy with KMS/HSM, audit logging) and drive alignment/sign‐off with Security.
• Establish joint operating processes with Security for incident response and investigations, including break‐glass access, audit log access patterns, and post‐incident remediation.
• Coach and mentor other engineers on security best practices and the adoption of the new secrets management platform.

• You have hands‐on expertise in designing, implementing, and operating HashiCorp Vault in large‐scale production environments.
• Proven experience with multi‐region deployments on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS. Experience with GCP and Azure is also highly valuable.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform.
• Knowledge of modern authentication and authorisation mechanisms (e.g., OIDC, SAML, JWT).
• Experience managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and certificate lifecycles.
• Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
• Proficient with Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes platforms such as EKS, GKS, and AKS.
• Experience with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm and Argo CD.
• You have a quality‐first mindset with demonstrable experience in creating and automating testing strategies for critical infrastructure.
• You are happy to write and maintain clear documentation for other teams.
• You have excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor both junior and senior engineers.

• For Scripting or development experience in Go, Python, or similar.
• Experience writing or maintaining Kubernetes Operators.

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