ControlPlane - OpenBao Consultant
Requirements
• We are seeking an OpenBao Consultant with a strong hybrid background in technical consulting, secrets management, and pre-sales solution architecture. • As part of a globally distributed team, you will be our technical expert based in European time zones (UK/EU). In this role, you will bridge technical expertise and commercial enablement. Joining sales calls, leading discovery sessions, designing tailored open-source secrets management architectures, and driving technical confidence to close deals. Beyond pre-sales, you will lead high-impact client engagements, perform hands-on OpenBao/Vault migrations and implementations, and contribute to internal labs and upstream open-source security projects. • Core Secrets Management Expertise • Deep, practical experience with either OpenBao or HashiCorp Vault (architectural design, high availability, dynamic secrets, PKI, auto-unseal mechanisms, namespace/policy design, and identity engines). • Hands-on experience with secrets migration, lifecycle management, and disaster recovery strategies. • Proven track record in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or customer-facing consulting role. • Strong ability to translate complex security and compliance concepts into business value for C-level executives, security leadership, and platform engineers. • Confident presentation skills with a demonstrated ability to guide clients through complex sales cycles and build technical trust. • Cloud-Native & DevSecOps Engineering • Experience with cloud-native architectures and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, or OpenShift). • Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or OpenTofu. • Familiarity with CI/CD security automation and pipeline hardening. • Working knowledge or desire to code/script in Golang, Python, or CLI tooling. • Location & Eligibility • Must be located in the UK or Europe with existing right to work (remote or hybrid London). • Ability to align work hours with European client time zones while collaborating with a global team.
Responsibilities
• Pre-Sales & Solution Architecture • Technical Sales Enablement: Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert on sales calls and prospect meetings across UK and European business hours. • Architecture & Scoping: Partner with account teams to discover client requirements, design scalable OpenBao/Vault solutions, draft technical proposals, and define statements of work (SOWs). • Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Leadership: Lead technical demonstrations, PoCs, and architectural evaluations to showcase value and overcome technical objections to close deals. • Global Collaboration: Work closely with our distributed global team to align pre-sales solution designs with delivery capabilities and ensure seamless project handovers. • Technical Delivery & Consulting • Secrets Management Architecture: Architect, deploy, and harden enterprise-grade OpenBao instances running across cloud-native and on-premises environments. • Migrations & Upgrades: Advise and execute seamless migration paths from proprietary or legacy secrets management systems to OpenBao. • Contribute to open-source tools, upstream OpenBao initiatives, and internal ControlPlane security research. • Represent ControlPlane at technical conferences, webinars, and community meetups.
Benefits
• Who is ControlPlane? • ControlPlane is a London-headquartered consultancy specialising in cloud-native, Kubernetes, and open-source security solutions. Our expertise lies in helping organisations adopt and secure complex cloud infrastructures by implementing security measures that are "secure-by-design" and "secure-by-default." This engineering excellence drives ControlPlane deep into cybersecurity, providing services like zero-trust architectures, threat modeling, supply chain security, and platform engineering. • We are acclaimed for our work in highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and national infrastructure. We help clients consume next-generation and open-source projects safely and securely. In addition to consulting, we are active contributors to the open-source community supporting projects like Flux CD, OpenBao, and FINOS AI Readiness. • ControlPlane is a dynamic, cutting-edge and passionate business to work for. Our employees are at the heart of our business, which means we care about our culture, our people and their progression. • Alongside this, as a colleague you will have the following benefits: • Generous and competitive salary + Bonus • 33 days of paid holiday, including paid leave for the standard 8 UK Bank Holidays • Enhanced Parental Leave • Private Medical and Dental Insurance • An individual training budget for personal development, including but not limited to: • Training (books, courses, coaching, as well as internal training which is of course included beyond budget) • We believe our peers are equally as important as the technology we use. We’re looking for people of the highest personal calibre: quietly confident, with a strong work ethic, keenness to learn, emotional maturity and respect, who understand that “we” is more than “me” and who embrace human diversity of all kinds. • As we grow, you’ll help us build a company culture of which we can all be proud. If you share these values, we want to hear from you! • NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Please do not call or email our team speculatively. We do not accept unsolicited CVs • NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:
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