OpenBao Consultant

Reports To: Delivery Manager Employment Status: Full Time Salary: Up to £110,000 + 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. What We're Looking For 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