Cryptography Service Engineer

Join us as a Cryptography Service Engineer at Barclays, responsible for supporting the successful delivery of Location Strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality, and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. To be successful as a Cryptography Service Engineer, you should have experience with: Experience with Certificate Management platforms such as Venafi, Digicert, or Sectigo. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Setting up and managing digital certificates and certificate authorities. Incident response knowledge of how to handle breaches or compromises related to cryptographic assets. Proficiency in Linux/Unix and Windows, especially for managing cryptographic systems. Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Some other highly valued skills may include: Experience with HSMs (Hardware Security Modules) like Thales or Entrust for secure key storage. Compliance Knowledge, Expertise in standards such as NIST, FIPS, ISO27001/27002. Strong documentation skills for operational procedures. Familiarity with SharePoint, Confluence, and JIRA. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role is based in Chennai. Purpose of the role To manage and monitor the bank's cryptographic assets, for all use cases, while ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of sensitive data, both through BAU support and On-Call support as part of a 24/7 global team. Accountabilities Collaboration with internal and external customers and stakeholders to understand and identify cryptographic needs across the organization, sharing best practices including solutions to business applications and processes. Execution of security assessments and penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities in cryptographic implementations and procedures and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant senior stakeholders. Implementation and monitoring of cryptographic solutions used in various banking applications to ensure they function correctly and meet the Cryptography Standard. Development of training content for colleagues to share expertise on cryptographic concepts, best practices, and security procedures in line with Standards and Industry regulations. Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and specifications related to cryptographic designs and implementations. Provision of subject matter expertise in cryptography methodologies. To manage and support the service management of cryptography solutions consumed by the Bank globally, in line with Technology Controls and Standards, including but not limited to Incident/Problem/Change/Vulnerability Management. Understanding of industry cryptographic principles including algorithms, protocols, and technologies including symmetric and asymmetric keys, digital signatures, key exchange, and encryption. Advocate the improvement and implementation of security controls when appropriate. Presentation of complex ideas effectively to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of Leadership. Assistant Vice President Expectations To advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives, and determination of reward outcomes. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: L Listen and be authentic, E Energize and inspire, A Align across the enterprise, D Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization sub-function. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information. "Complex" information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience. Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge, and Drive the operating manual for how we behave.,