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Bank of America

Senior Cryptographic Engineer

Bank of America, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32290


Senior Cryptographic Engineer

Plano, Texas;Atlanta, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Jersey City, New Jersey; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

About us:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for leading the most complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of the most complex technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include consistently looking for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency of implementing the services, and influencing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Overview:

The Senior Cryptographic Engineer will be responsible for leading design, implementation, and maintenance of critical key management systems used to protect sensitive data within the bank and on the cloud. This role involves leading work efforts from inception to lifecycle management i.e. secure generation, storage, distribution, and rotation of cryptographic keys in compliance with NIST, FIPS and GDPR standards following all the best practices. Ability to develop detailed architectural diagrams to meet complex business/technical requirements.

Responsibilities:

Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes

Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes and contributes to the technology strategy for end-to-end engineering solutions and provides feedback to the architecture teams

Translates business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies

Participates in various steering committees for technical and infrastructure service domains

Leads the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose

Mentors and guides team members to ensure system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards

Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Ability to independently lead or manage small work efforts providing guidance to involved parties

Ability to interact with senior management and present, solicit feedback and/or debate on subjects pertaining to the primary role

Participates and provides feedback in the development of internal and external policies and procedures

In-depth knowledge of AWS Security, Identity and compliance suite of services i.e. Amazon Detective, Inspector, GuardDuty, Audit Manager, Certificate Manager, CloudHSM, Directory Service, FW Manager, AWS KMS, IAM, etc. and working knowledge of Azure Security i.e. Defender for Cloud, Application Gateway, Microsoft Entra ID, Key Vault, etc. and their use with on-prem or cloud SaaS offerings

Ensure compliance with internal standards, procedures and regulatory requirements related to key management. Participate in security audits and assessments

Available to respond to security incidents involving the compromise or corruption of cryptographic key scenarios. Devise, implement and document corrective actions to prevent future incidents. Familiarity of Incident and Problem Management systems like Remedy or ServiceNow

Maintain comprehensive documentation of key management processes, configurations, and incident responses

Conduct training sessions and awareness programs for employees on best practices in key management and cryptographic security. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies related to key management and cryptographic standards

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of Cryptographic engineering and architecture experience that includes designing, implementing and maintaining complex enterprise scale solutions and security systems

Overarching broad and deep technical knowledge of cryptographic standards i.e. FIPS, NIST and GDPR

Hand-on experience implementing security services on AWS, Azure and/or GCP

Extensive experience and advanced knowledge implementing key management systems i.e. HSMs and other hardware/software appliances

Extensive knowledge of KMS best-practices, latest security threats/trends and mitigation thereof

Advanced scripting experience and capabilities using python, perl, java and/or powershell

Strong working knowledge on Linux and windows systems and familiarity with DNS, networks, DMZs, firewalls, network security zones and IPv6

Deep, in-depth working knowledge of Kerberos and NTLM authentication, MFA, SSO and federation technologies

Experience performing large scale security implementation, upgrades, migrations, transitions and consolidation of IM and Cryptographic solutions

Experience and confidence to be the subject matter expert (SME) in an environment of this size and scale in order to coordinate technical efforts and resolve issues across multiple teams

Working knowledge of Certificate/CA/PKI infrastructure

Excellent communication skills, including proven experience effectively communicating technical challenges and solutions to peers, customers and senior management

Cryptography, Key Management dealing with HSMs

Thales CipherTrust Manager and Luna HSMs

Encryption and key management tools, processes and procedures including end to end key ceremony lifecycle

General understanding of Certificate Authorities and PKI

Authentication tools and services

Security event and incident management systems and/or incident reporting systems and networks

Experience developing scripts using python, jython, java, shell scripts on linux systems.

Extensive experience using various technologies such as REST, WebApi, SQL, ORM, IoC, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, CI/CD

Experience with LDAP queries

Experience implementing workflows and enterprise distributed applications with general understanding of databases and the ability to handcraft SQL queries when needed

Understanding of software development patterns and best practices

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or relevant experience

Desired Qualifications:

Certifications of Microsoft Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500) or AWS Certified Security Specialty

Thales CipherTrust Manager and Luna HSMs

Encryption and key management tools, processes and procedures

Strong scripting experience

Knowledge of managing network appliances in both form factors (hardware and virtual)

Skills:

Adaptability

Business Acumen

Production Support

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Automation

Influence

Innovative Thinking

Solution Delivery Process

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Architecture

Collaboration

Project Management

Result Orientation

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$150,000.00 - $190,700.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

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