Cryptography and Key Management Analyst

The Opportunity

Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.

Responsibilities

• Cryptographic Hardware Management – including on site local configuration activities.
• Support with resourcing, scheduling and distribution of work requests for HSM and Key management. Work closely with dates set in cooperation with Service Management to ensure smooth continuity of services and operations. Deliver to the required SLAs for all service.
• Gather, distribute, store, recover and delete cryptographic keys in accordance with defined procedures and to meet service, risk and governance requirements as part of a component handling team across a variety of platforms across core geographic locations globally.
• Management of Cryptographic infrastructure to include Out of Hours Support, production of Monthly management information and risk statements.
• Adherence to Group IT Security Standards.
• Problem, Incident & Change Management including root cause identification.
• Procedure/process development.
• Project delivery.
• Auditable Record Management.
• Excellent Risk and Control Maintenance.
• Ensure governance and clear record keeping of activities undertaken to ensure an accurate audit trail required for attestation/Audit support.
• Take a proactive approach to improving operations and customer experience/turnaround.
• Assist in the management of any control issues identified via audits or other control issues.

Skills

• Experience in Cryptography and Information Security, with a particular focus on cryptographic key management (strong foundational knowledge is required; deeper expertise can be developed on the job).
• ITIL Foundation certification.
• Experience in Key Management, Certificate Management, and HSM configuration, installation, and support.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure and development environments, including databases, server environments, and Windows/Linux systems.
• Experience with Python and/or Golang, with an interest in using these to support automation and workflow optimisation.
• Familiarity with cryptographic and key management toolsets, ideally including Thales (Crypto Command Centre, PayShield Monitor and Manager) and/or Entrust (KeySafe 5).
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate at all levels.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to make sound decisions under tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications.

Benefits

• Competitive holiday allowance
• Life assurance
• Private medical care
• Pension contribution

About Us

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.