At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive improvements in a large-scale HashiCorp Vault environment and enhance security.
- Company: Join a major financial services organisation with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate with global teams in a dynamic and regulated industry.
- Why this job: Shape the future of secrets management in a complex global environment.
- Qualifications: 3+ years of HashiCorp Vault experience and strong Terraform skills.
We're supporting a major financial services organisation on a large-scale Identity & Access Management transformation and are looking for an experienced IAM Backend Engineer with strong HashiCorp Vault expertise. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing engineering team responsible for developing, improving and scaling a critical enterprise secrets management platform supporting a global business.
Key Skills & Experience:
- 3+ years' hands-on HashiCorp Vault experience (on-prem preferred)
- Strong Terraform expertise with automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Ansible AAP playbook development and Jenkins pipeline management
- Secrets Management and Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Linux server administration and backend infrastructure engineering
- Kubernetes and enterprise platform support
- Monitoring and observability tools including Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics or SCOM
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and delivering root cause remediation
- Agile delivery experience using Jira and GitHub
What You'll Be Doing:
- Driving improvements across a large-scale HashiCorp Vault environment
- Enhancing platform resilience, security and operational efficiency
- Delivering automation and self-service capabilities
- Supporting strategic IAM and PAM initiatives
- Acting as a technical SME for Vault and secrets management technologies
- Collaborating with engineering, security and infrastructure teams across a global environment
Desirable:
- Experience within financial services or other highly regulated environments
- CI/CD and release automation experience
- Audit, risk and compliance exposure
- Scrum Master or Agile delivery experience
This is an opportunity to work on a business-critical security platform at enterprise scale, helping shape the future of secrets management and privileged access capabilities within a complex global environment.
Interested? Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.
IAM Backend Engineer (HashiCorp Vault) in Sheffield employer: Cipher Talent
Cipher Talent is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration in the heart of Sheffield. Employees benefit from comprehensive professional development opportunities, competitive compensation, and a commitment to work-life balance, making it an ideal environment for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the financial services sector.
