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Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.\nJob Description\n6-10 years overall experience; at least 3-5 years in secure engineering, cryptographic implementation, application security,engineering, platform security, DevSecOps, or security-focused software engineering.\nBridge PQC architecture and application implementation by creating reusable crypto-agility patterns, pilots, engineering accelerators and validation methods\n͏\nKey Responsibilities\nAnalyze application and platform use of crypto libraries, TLS stacks, signing workflows, encryption modules, key stores, HSM/KMS interfaces and hardcoded cryptographic dependencies.\nCreate reference implementations for hybrid key exchange, signature migration, crypto abstraction, certificate upgrades and library replacement patterns.\nBuild reusable engineering playbooks for Java, .NET, Python, Go, C/C++, APIs, middleware and cloud-native services where applicable.\nSupport PQC pilots using approved libraries, testbeds and partner/open-source tooling.\nDefine validation approach for interoperability, regression, performance, latency, compatibility and operational impact.\nGuide application delivery teams rather than owning every application-specific code change.\nSupport AI-assisted code analysis and remediation workflows where appropriate, including review of generated recommendations before implementation.\n͏\nRequired Skills\nStrong programming and engineering background in at least two of Java, .NET/C#, Python, Go, C/C++, Rust or JavaScript/TypeScript.\nGood understanding of OpenSSL, Bouncy Castle, crypto APIs, TLS stacks, PKCS#11, key stores, secret management, cloud KMS/HSM and certificate usage patterns.\nWorking knowledge of secure SDLC, DevSecOps pipelines, automated testing, CI/CD, dependency management and application security controls.\nAbility to create clean reference code, integration guides, technical design notes and reusable implementation patterns.\nPractical understanding of PQC libraries and hybrid migration concepts.\n͏\nPreferred / Advantageous Skills\nHands-on exposure to liboqs, OQS-OpenSSL, PQClean, cloud KMS/HSM, service mesh, API gateway or code-signing pipelines.\nExperience with performance testing, protocol testing, fuzzing, regression automation or secure code review.\nBFS/payment/core banking exposure is useful but not mandatory for the seed role.\nExpected Deliverables / Outputs\nReusable crypto remediation patterns\nPQC pilot implementation guide\nReference code/assets\nPerformance and compatibility validation notes\nApplication engineering playbook\n͏\nPerform root-cause analysis to identify and troubleshoot recurring technical issues. Modify software codes to resolve errors, adapt to new hardware and software, enhance performance, and upgrade interfaces.\"\nImplementation-\"Collaborate with technical teams to validate configurations, facilitate integration of new applications, and address dependencies during deployment. Prepare user training documents and related frameworks to ensure smooth adoption new applications and minimize transition risks.\"\nReinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention. Come to Wipro. 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