Cryptography PKI & SSH Engineer
Cryptography PKI & SSH Engineer – Knutsford (Hybrid) - 2 days a week on site.
Guide salary: ~45-70k / Annum + benefits & bonus.
A leading global financial institution is expanding its cryptography and secure‐access engineering function and is seeking an experienced PKI & SSH Engineer to help design, maintain and evolve mission‐critical security infrastructure.
This role suits someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, strengthening enterprise‐scale platforms, and contributing to a collaborative engineering environment focused on resilience, automation and secure‐by‐design principles.
The role:
- Designing, implementing and maintaining PKI, SSH and secure key‐management frameworks across a global banking environment
- Supporting and enhancing cryptographic services, secure connectivity, system hardening and Zero Trust integrations
- Analysing logs, incidents and system behaviour to identify root causes and drive long‐term stability
- Executing preventative maintenance, tuning monitoring tools and improving alerting, capacity and resiliency
- Driving automation across support activities to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk
- Participating in a 24/7 on‐call rotation to support urgent cryptographic or access‐related incidents
- Contributing to engineering strategy, risk mitigation, governance and continuous improvement initiatives
Experience required:
- Strong background in PKI, encryption standards, secure key management and SSH‐based access frameworks (Open to candidates from more generic security or IAM background too)
- Solid Unix/Linux/Windows system administration experience
- Ability to design and maintain secure communication architectures aligned with regulatory and banking security standards
- Experience with automation or scripting (Python, Go or similar)
- Strong networking and security troubleshooting skills
- Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST, FIPS 140‐3 or similar security frameworks
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem‐solving skills
- Experience in large‐scale, highly regulated environments (Financial Services advantageous)
Please apply within if you match the criteria above and I’ll be sure to get in touch.