Senior Cryptography Engineer

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Senior Cryptography Engineer

Job no: 502264
Work type: Permanent Full Time
Location: London - Hybrid, Leeds - Hybrid
Categories: Information Security

Our vision is to be a top-tier example of collaborative and transparent trust and assurance. Our mission is to empower NewDay partners with trust and confidence that their data is protected with high levels of security assurance to drive revenue growth. We collaborate with our colleagues to provide a route to success!

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Building and scaling out our cryptographic and key management operations.
• Engage with our engineering and product teams, facilitating their adoption and use of cryptographic capabilities and enabling them to build secure products.
• Ensure compliance with key protection standards and practices, supporting ongoing audit and assurance activities.
• Implement and maintain processes for managing cryptographic keys.
• Contribute to implementing and operationalising secure key storage mechanisms to support a modern cloud-native consumer lending platform.
• Review and build team processes and procedures.
• Work with the Platform Team to build pipelines supporting cryptography operations.
• Key generation and distribution activities across the lifecycle of cryptographic keys.
• Input on policy related to cryptography and key management.
• Keep abreast of industry practices and standards related to key management.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and information security teams to integrate key management practices into NewDay's security strategy.
• Participate and support audits and assessments related to cryptographic key practices.

WE NEED KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE + EXPERTISE IN

• Experience in key handling, segregation of duties and split knowledge in a Cryptographic operations team.
• Certificate Management.
• Solid understanding of HSM technologies, Thales services, and technologies like HashiCorp Vault.
• Previous experience in Financial Services, for example, banking, consumer lending, payments, and card-issuing.
• Understanding of Software Delivery pipelines and automating key management activities.
• Solid grasp of various types of encryptions like File/Folder level encryption, database file encryption and application encryption.
• Communication, problem-solving, documentation, and presentation skills.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of how to respond to cryptography incidents.
• Good understanding of security and compliance frameworks and standards for cryptography, e.g. PCI-DSS, PCI-PIN, PCI-CPP, NIST, FIPS.

AND WOULD LOVE YOU TO KNOW OR LEARN

• Proficiency in software engineering and infrastructure as code.
• GitHub Actions and other CI/CD pipeline tooling.
• Security Architecture and secure system design principles.
• Relevant certifications.

WHERE NEXT?

In the NewDay Tech team, you'll join an Expert or Leader career pathway. This will guide you on what your next step here could look like, with regular and open feedback to help you build capabilities to move forward.

ABOUT NEWDAY

We help people move forward with credit, and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.

We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.

Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.

At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We're an equal-opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don't discriminate based on age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Please tell us if you need accommodations: and we'll make reasonable adjustments to support you.

Advertised: 04 Feb 2024 GMT Standard Time
Applications close: 29 May 2024 GMT Daylight Time