Security Design Engineer - SSH Key Management

We are currently looking for a Security Design Engineer to work with one of our financial services clients. This will be part of a project team working on SSH Key Management transformation. The role will be on a hybrid working model with 3 days per week in either Edinburgh, Sheffield or Birmingham.

Responsibilities will include managing end-to-end solution design and delivering design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. Alongside the creation of high-level designs, the Security Design Engineer will be required to publish new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.

• Significant experience and proven technical depth within identity & access and cryptography
• Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption:
  Using algorithms for secure data encryption and decryption.
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI):
  Framework for managing digital certificates and public-key encryption.
• Hash Functions:
  Creating fixed-size hash values from data for integrity verification.
• Secure Key Exchange Protocols:
  Facilitating secure exchange of cryptographic keys over untrusted channels.
• Federated Identity Management:
  Enabling identity sharing and single sign-on across different organisations or domains.
• Privileged Access Management (PAM):
  Securing, controlling, and monitoring access to critical systems by privileged users.
• Authentication Protocols:
  Implementing secure authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.
• Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level

• Bizz Design, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs
• Jira for project & tasks management
• Confluence for documentation