OpenBao Consultant
Job description
An OpenBao Consultant role at a London-headquartered cloud-native security consultancy, combining technical pre-sales and solution architecture with hands-on secrets management delivery. The consultant acts as the technical expert for UK and European clients, leading discovery, PoCs, migrations and OpenBao/Vault implementations.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- 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 the 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
What we're looking for
- 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
- 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
An individual training budget for personal development, including conferences, training (books, courses, coaching, internal training) and qualifications
- 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
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About ControlPlane Limited
Cloud-native, Kubernetes, and open-source security solutions
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.
Key facts
- London
- Cybersecurity consultancy
- Acclaimed for work in highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and national infrastructure
- Active contributors to the open-source community supporting projects like Flux CD, OpenBao, and FINOS AI Readiness
What they value
- Quietly confident
- Strong work ethic
- Keenness to learn
- Emotional maturity and respect
- "we" is more than "me"
- Embrace human diversity of all kinds