Crypto Platform Engineer (Contract, Hybrid, Manchester)

World Wide Technology; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

World Wide Technology (WWT) is seeking an experienced Cryptography Engineer for intersection of cryptographic architecture and platform/automation engineering in Manchester. Contract role inside IR35, 6 months, hybrid work arrangement.

You will build APIs, automate cryptographic services, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with cloud, application and infrastructure teams to drive reliability and crypto‑agility.

Qualifications

• Strong software, platform or infrastructure engineering background.
• Experience building and supporting enterprise-scale services.
• Strong automation and scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Java, Go or similar).
• API development and systems integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate cryptographic service capabilities.
• Develop APIs, tooling and self-service solutions.
• Integrate cryptographic services into CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Simplify and remove manual operational processes.
• Partner with application, cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.
• Drive platform reliability, resilience and service adoption.
• Support crypto-agility and future cryptography initiatives.
• Champion engineering best practices and continuous improvement.

Skills

Software engineering

Automation scripting

API development

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

PKI knowledge

Crypto knowledge

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Job description

World Wide Technology (WWT) is seeking an experienced Cryptography Engineer for intersection of cryptographic architecture and platform/automation engineering in Manchester. Contract role inside IR35, 6 months, hybrid work arrangement.

You will build APIs, automate cryptographic services, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with cloud, application and infrastructure teams to drive reliability and crypto‑agility.