Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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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.

Your Impact

• 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).
• Act as the primary SME for the organisation on all aspects of Vault and modern secrets management actively championing and evangelising best practices.
• 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.
• Establish joint operating processes with Security for incident response and investigations including break-glass access audit log access patterns and post-incident remediation.
• Coach and mentor other engineers on security best practices and the adoption of the new secrets management platform.

Your Skills

• You have hands-on expertise in designing implementing and operatingHashiCorp Vaultin large-scale production environments.
• Proven experience with multi-region deployments on public cloud platforms preferablyAWS. Experience with GCPand Azure is also highly valuable.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform.
• Knowledge of modern authentication and authorisation mechanisms (e.g. OIDC SAML JWT).
• Experience managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and certificate lifecycles.
• Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana Prometheus and Loki.
• Proficient with Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes platforms such as EKS GKS and AKS.
• Experience with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm and Argo CD.
• You have a quality-first mindset with demonstrable experience in creating and automating testing strategies for critical infrastructure.
• You are happy to write and maintain clear documentation for other teams.
• You have excellent communication skills with a proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor both junior and senior engineers.

Bonus Points For:

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

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