Enterprise Engineer Cryptography

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Join our Crypto Engineering team, where we help protect the organisation by strengthening cryptographic controls across platforms and services. As a Crypto Engineer, you’ll support a range of cryptography initiatives, contributing to assessments, analysis, testing and troubleshooting across certificate lifecycle management, SSH key discovery, HSMs and post-quantum cryptography topics.

What you’ll do

• Support cryptography initiatives across the wider Crypto Engineering team, contributing to secure-by-design outcomes
• Participate in assessments covering PKI certificate lifetime management and certificate operations
• Assist with SSH key discovery and related control improvements across estate
• Contribute to HSM testing and validation activities to ensure cryptographic services are robust and reliable
• Provide input on post-quantum cryptography-related considerations, impacts and readiness activities
• Work closely with a small team of engineers to share ideas, challenge assumptions and improve solutions
• Perform technical analysis, debugging and investigation to resolve cryptography-related issues efficiently
• Identify opportunities to improve ways of working through automation and process enhancements

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Solid understanding of core cryptography concepts including encryption/decryption, signing, certificates, and symmetric and asymmetric algorithms
• Good working knowledge of Windows and Unix operating systems
• Experience across infrastructure technologies such as VMware, Windows and Linux infrastructure, databases, firewalls and networks
• Hands-on experience with automation and tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, Splunk and Postman
• Understanding of software release management and deployment tools such as GitHub and Jenkins
• Working knowledge of databases, particularly Microsoft SQL
• Identity and Access Management understanding including RBAC and Privileged Access Management
• Experience with service management processes and tools such as ServiceNow and change management using RFCs