Security Engineer

Santcore Technologies is seeking a HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise) Specialist for one of our major clients in the secure financial services domain at Culpeper, VA (Hybrid – Onsite 2 days/week required).

We are looking for a hands-on security engineer with deep experience in Vault Enterprise, Terraform, Ansible, and RHEL hardening. The selected consultant will work in a high-security environment and contribute to secure automation, platform integrations, and infrastructure hardening.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain HashiCorp Vault Enterprise clusters (including HA architectures).
• Monitor Vault performance, troubleshoot complex issues, and implement security hardening best practices.
• Integrate Vault with enterprise systems, authentication methods, and automation pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules for secure infrastructure provisioning.
• Troubleshoot, monitor, and harden RHEL environments, including SELinux policy management.
• Build and maintain Ansible roles, playbooks, and automation workflows (including AWX/Ansible Tower).
• Assist internal teams with Vault onboarding, usage support, and operational readiness.
• Participate in on-call rotation as required.
• Maintain at least 2 days/week onsite presence in Culpeper, VA.

Required Skills (Must-Have)

• 3 years of experience in security engineering, platform security, or security automation.
• 3 years hands-on experience managing HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, including:
• HA deployments
• Monitoring & debugging
• Hardening and best practices
• Secret engines, auth methods, integrations
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Terraform (module development)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (troubleshooting, monitoring, hardening)
• Ansible (roles, playbooks, AWX/Ansible Tower)

Preferred Skills

• Go development (particularly for custom Vault plugin development)
• Jenkins (automation pipelines)
• Splunk (dashboards, alerts, queries)
• ELK Stack (integration, dashboards, queries)
• SELinux (policy development and troubleshooting)

Nice-to-Have Certifications

• HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate
• HashiCorp Vault Operations Professional
• Terraform Associate
• Red Hat Certifications

Soft Skills

• Analytical problem-solving and strong troubleshooting mindset
• Ability to work cross-functionally within security, cloud, and DevOps teams
• Strong documentation and communication skills
• Detail-oriented and committed to enterprise security best practices
• Adaptability in dynamic and fast-paced technical environments