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OpenBao Consultant
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Role overview
Combine technical consulting, solution architecture, and pre-sales support focused on open-source secrets management. You’ll guide prospective clients through discovery and technical evaluation, then help deliver secure implementations and migrations in cloud-native and on-premises environments. The position works with clients across UK and European hours as part of a globally distributed team.
Responsibilities - Lead technical discussions, discovery sessions, demonstrations, and proofs of concept with prospective clients. - Shape requirements into OpenBao or Vault architectures, proposals, and project scopes, coordinating designs with delivery teams. - Design, deploy, and secure enterprise secrets management systems across cloud and on-premises settings. - Plan and carry out migrations and upgrades from legacy or proprietary secrets platforms. - Contribute to internal security research, labs, and upstream open-source projects; represent the work at technical events.
Requirements - Practical OpenBao or HashiCorp Vault experience, including architecture, high availability, dynamic secrets, PKI, identity, policies, and recovery. - Experience managing secrets migration and lifecycle practices. - Background in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or client-facing consulting. - Ability to explain security and compliance topics to executives, security leaders, and engineering teams, and to lead technical presentations. - Cloud-native and Kubernetes experience, plus Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform or OpenTofu. - Familiarity with CI/CD security; ability or willingness to script or code with Go, Python, or command-line tools.
Benefits and work setup
- Must be based in the UK or Europe with existing right to work; remote work or a hybrid arrangement in London is available. Working hours should align with European clients. - Benefits include a bonus, 33 days of paid holiday including UK bank holidays, enhanced parental leave, private medical and dental cover, and a personal development budget for training, qualifications, and conferences.