Crypto Engineer - SSH

Job in Manchester, Greater Manchester, M9, England, UK

Listing for: WWT EMEA UK LIMITED

Contract position
Listed on 2026-09-26

Job specializations:

IT/Tech
IT Consultant, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 65 - 68 GBP Daily GBP 65.00 68.00 DAY

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results from idea to outcome. World Wide Technology (WWT) is looking for an experienced SSH Linux Engineer to own secure SSH access across a large enterprise estate and support the backend infrastructure behind it. The ideal candidate combines strong SSH/Linux engineering skill with automation experience - maintaining discovery tooling, onboarding new privileged access solutions, and driving governance and audit readiness.

This is a contract Role & Inside IR35 Crypto Engineer - SSH Contract Duration: 6 months

Location:

Remote, UK

Key Responsibilities Own SSH access, key/certificate handling, and controls. Maintain and upgrade SSH discovery tooling. Lead onboarding of PrivX for discovery and JIT access. Support Linux backend, including PostgreSQL. Build Python automation for discovery and reporting. Troubleshoot SSH issues and support incident management. What We're Looking For Essential:
Strong Unix/Linux skills, including bash scripting and service management. Deep knowledge of SSH keys, algorithms, and certificates. Automation experience (Python, Terraform, Ansible).

Experience with Git Hub, Jenkins, and release management. Identity and Access Management experience (RBAC, PAM).

Experience with Service Now, RFC processes, and Advanced Excel. Desirable:
Experience in large financial-sector organizations. Venafi TPP knowledge for SSH key discovery. Candidates will be required to go through background checks before commencing contract. Must be eligible to live and work in the specified work location. Only successful candidates will be contacted. EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified