Engineering Director - Data Infrastructure in Trafford

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.

Anaplan is looking for a Principal Infrastructure 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).
• 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.

Proven experience with multi-region deployments on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS. You have a quality-first mindset with demonstrable experience in creating and automating testing strategies for critical infrastructure.

Bonus Points For:

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

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