[Hiring] OpenBao Consultant @ControlPlane

Role Description

We are seeking an OpenBao Consultant with a strong hybrid background in technical consulting, secrets management, and pre-sales solution architecture.

• Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert on sales calls and prospect meetings across UK and European business hours.
• Partner with account teams to discover client requirements, design scalable OpenBao/Vault solutions, draft technical proposals, and define statements of work (SOWs).
• Lead technical demonstrations, PoCs, and architectural evaluations to showcase value and overcome technical objections to close deals.
• Work closely with our distributed global team to align pre-sales solution designs with delivery capabilities and ensure seamless project handovers.
• Architect, deploy, and harden enterprise-grade OpenBao instances running across cloud-native and on-premises environments.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

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:
  • Conferences
  • Training (books, courses, coaching, as well as internal training which is of course included beyond budget)