Vault Tech Lead - Cloud

Vault Tech Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Contract
Primary Skill : AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
Job Description :
Vault Tech Lead (Thought Machine)Experience:

• The ideal candidate will bring deep technical leadership in cloud-native banking environments, infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, and production stability.
• This role requires strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Aurora PostgreSQL integration, Linux systems, and Cloud Engineering,
• along with proven experience managing Vault platform deployments at scale.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 14+ years of overall IT experience with strong exposure to Cloud Engineering & Infrastructure Architecture
• Extensive hands-on experience with Thought Machine Vault (Core Banking Platform) deployment, configuration, customization, environment management, and production support
• Strong expertise in AWS Cloud Services (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, CloudWatch, security & networking)
• Proven experience with Aurora PostgreSQL integration, performance tuning, backup, replication, and high availability setup
• Strong experience in Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and containerized workloads
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and automation
• Solid experience in Linux administration and shell scripting
• Experience with Go-based services and microservices architecture
• Expertise in observability & monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana
• Strong knowledge of high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and secure cloud architecture
• Proven experience in platform upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and performance optimization
• Strong production support, incident management, and root cause analysis skills
• Experience leading technical teams and driving architectural decisions
• Strong understanding of banking domain systems and regulatory environments
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of Thought Machine Vault environments
• Architect and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform (IaC)
• Design and manage Aurora PostgreSQL integrations ensuring performance, HA, and resilience
• Deploy and manage Vault