{"id":424675,"url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-cryptography-operations-engineer","title":"Cryptography Operations Engineer","company":{"id":12541,"name":"Barclays","domain":"home.barclays","url":"https://alion.io/company/barclays-uk","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":156,"ghost_share":0.013,"stale_share":0.295,"repost_share":0.103,"time_to_fill_p50_days":14,"computed_at":"2026-10-03T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Knutsford, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":38000,"max_usd":90000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":306},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Confluence","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"SharePoint","optional":false},{"name":"Unix","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-10T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-10","last_verified_at":"2026-10-03T23:23:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":55,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":55},"description":"Job Description\nPurpose of the role\nTo manage and monitor the banks cryptographic assets, for all use cases, whilst ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of sensitive data, both through BAU support and On-Call support as part of a 24/7 global team.\nAccountabilities\nCollaboration with internal and external customers and stakeholders to understand and identify cryptographic needs across the organisation, sharing best practices including solutions to business applications and processes.\nExecution of security assessments and penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities in cryptographic implementations and procedures and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant findings to relevant senior stakeholders.\nImplementation and monitoring of cryptographic solutions used in various banking applications to ensure they function correctly and meet the Cryptography Standard.\nDevelopment of training content for colleagues to share expertise on cryptographic concepts, best practice and security procedures in line with Standards and Industry regulations Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and specifications related to cryptographic designs and implementations. Provision of subject matter expertise in cryptography methodologies.\nTo manage and support the service management of cryptography solutions consumed by the Bank globally, in line with Technology Controls and Standards, including but not limited to Incident/Problem/Change/Vulnerability Management.\nUnderstanding of industry cryptographic principles including algorithms, protocols and technologies including symmetric and asymmetric keys, digital signatures, key exchange and encryption. Advocate the improvement and implementation of security controls when appropriate.\nPresentation of complex ideas effectively to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of Leadership.\nAssistant Vice President Expectations\nTo advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.\nLead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes\nIf the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.\nOR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.\nConsult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.\nIdentify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.\nTake ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.\nPerform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.\nCollaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.\nEngage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.\nCommunicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.\nInfluence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.\nAll colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.\nJoin Barclays in Cryptography Operations within the Chief Information Security Office (CISO), where you will play a critical role in safeguarding encryption keys and cryptographic services that support secure, multi-tenancy encryption across multiple enterprise applications.\nThis is a hands-on role for an engineer with excellent knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, cryptographic algorithms, and policy-driven security controls. You will work extensively with Hardware Security Modules, using Thales and Entrust vendor tools, and be responsible for operating and supporting production-grade cryptographic applications and key management solutions at scale. You will also need to be comfortable working across complex infrastructure environments, with familiarity in both Windows and Linux servers. This is an excellent opportunity to grow technical and service managements capability in Cryptography within a supportive engineering environment..\nThe role follows anchor days on Monday and Tuesday and operates on standard UK hours (9 AM-5 PM), with 24/7 on-call support rotation. The role will require off site working to support the implementation of equipment within data centres.\nTo be successful in this role, you will need the following:\nExperience in Cryptography and Information Security.\n\nExperience in Key Management.\n\nExperience in HSM configuration/installation/support.\n\nCertificate management experience.\n\nStakeholder management with the ability to influence and negotiate at all levels.\n\nExcellent attention to detail and accuracy. Ability to make informed decisions under tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities effectively.\n\nSome other highly valued skills may include:\nRelevant security or project management experience.\n\nBackground in operational environments, IT Infrastructure, incident response and change management.\n\nDocumentation skills for operational procedures.\n\nFamiliarity with SharePoint, Confluence, and JIRA.\n\nUnix/Windows operating system knowledge.\n\nYou may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.\nLocation of you role is Knutsford.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6945,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commercial & Retail Banks","Cards & Card Issuing","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Investment Banking & M&A Advisory"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-06T04:39:14Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.197,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":54,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-03T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-cryptography-operations-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-cryptography-operations-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:14Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4999,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-05T00:00:00Z"}}}