Principal Security Engineer at Citizens
Johnston, RI
$142,000–$186,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Johnston, RI
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on managing HashiCorp Vault across multiple environments within a bank's IAM Engineering team — covering deployment, configuration, version upgrades, monitoring, and customer onboarding. Day-to-day work involves using Terraform and Git to define Vault namespaces and secrets engines, supporting Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and observing infrastructure health via DataDog and Splunk. It suits engineers with deep HashiCorp Vault expertise and a background in IAM or information security.
Senior level · Providence-Warwick, RI-MA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 25 people in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–35
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,564 (middle half $104,192–$163,048). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (7)
Citizens Bank is headquartered in Providence, RI; the posting does not specify a work location or remote eligibility beyond a standard M–F schedule with occasional after-hours, so it is treated as on-site/non-remote at the company's primary location.
The role sits at the boundary between software/DevSecOps engineering (15-1252) and information security (15-1212); the primary day-to-day work is building and operating HashiCorp Vault infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, which leans toward software development, but IAM/security governance is a significant component.
AWS and Azure are both listed in the requirements section as a paired knowledge requirement; AWS is named first and used as the primary skill with Azure as an alternative, reflecting that both are expected but the posting treats them as a combined cloud-platform requirement.
DataDog and Splunk appear in the responsibilities section (not the Experience and Skills requirements block) as monitoring tools used on the job; they are treated as preferred/contextual rather than hard gates.
Jira, Confluence, and Trello appear together as examples of Agile tooling under the Experience and Skills section; Jira is named as the primary with the others as alternatives since they are presented as interchangeable Agile board tools.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree… or equivalent experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
No overall years-of-experience figure is stated at the role level; 'expert level experience with HashiCorp Vault' is a qualitative gate, not a numeric one.
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