HashiCorp Vault Engineer

Antal is a leading recruitment and HR advisory company operating in Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary since 1996, employing around 150 professionals across the CEE region. The company provides specialist and executive recruitment, employee outsourcing, HR consulting, employer branding, and market research services. This role is within the PAM Engineering Function of a global Identity and Access Management (IAM) Technology organisation, focusing on on-premises HashiCorp Vault service and privileged access management (PAM) services.

• 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 (e.g., Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, SCOM).
• Familiarity with large-scale enterprise technologies and operating in Agile environments using Jira and Jira Service Desk.
• Strong collaboration skills and the 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.

• 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.