Security - Senior Key and Certificate Services Consultant

DXC Technology Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company in the UK seeks a highly experienced Key and Certificate Services Senior Consultant. The role involves designing and implementing data protection solutions while interacting with C-level executives. Candidates must have over 10 years of experience in IT Security and a strong track record in client relationship management. This position offers flexibility with remote working options.

Benefits

In-person collaboration opportunities

Flexible working model

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in IT Security and Information Security.
• Proven track record in designing and implementing data protection solutions.
• Excellent presentation and reporting skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and deploying scalable systems in cloud offerings.
• Interacting with high-level clients to improve data protection posture.
• Integrating and building solutions using cloud configuration management.

Skills

Data protection solutions

Client relationship management

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Education

Computing or business degree

Tools

PowerShell

REST API

Job description

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Key and Certificate Services (KCS) Senior Consultant

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Job Description:

We want to grow – grow with us!

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner alliance combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognized among the best corporate citizens globally. For more information, visit www.dxc.technology.

Against this background, you get involved in our business area Cyber Security – one of the strategic areas of growth at DXC. With our Digital Identity – Key and Certificate Services Team we support our customers from the analysis of business processes to the design and implementation of innovative end-to-end solutions up to the support and further development of existing security solutions.

We see ourselves as an evolving and dynamic team with an excellent team spirit and a healthy mix of consultants with different levels of experience – from young professionals to highly experienced senior consultants.

The responsibility of the Key and Certificate Services Senior Consultant is to develop solution architectures and improvement roadmaps addressing trust services requirements with our customers – especially around PKI and Key Management.

We are looking for an experienced consultant who can design and oversee the implementation of data protection solutions such as rights management solutions, data leakage prevention solutions, PKI solutions, and Key Management

This role requires the ability to interact and influence at a high level within client organizations such as with CISO’s and CIO’s, to help them improve their overall data protection posture. You will be able to demonstrate industry expertise and understanding of the security market and future trends.

Required:

• A Computing or business degree; or equivalent
• 10+ years’ experience working in IT Security and Information Security in various industry sectors
• Proven track record in successfully designing and implementing data protection solutions such as rights management, data leakage prevention, PKI, and Key Management
• Proven track record of assessing client’s needs, providing advice to, and influencing management
• Working knowledge of EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its implementations in the different countries
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a track record of developing strong client relationships
• Positive and ambitious attitude, and ability to work on own initiative
• Strong organisational, planning, and problem-solving skills, ability to multi-task and demonstrate flexible thinking
• Excellent presentation and reporting skills in English language (written and verbal)
• This is a role which requires full mobility and hence the candidate must be able to drive

Desired Professional Accreditations:

• CISSP
• CISM
• CISA
• Prince2/PMP or similar
• ITIL

What will you do?

The Key and Certificates Services Senior Consultant will be designing, building, and deploying scalable and fault tolerant systems in on Premises and Cloud Offerings for a variety of clients in different industries.

Where the role may require flexibility, you will mostly work in an Agile manner in small dedicated and collocated teams, you may also be required to work as part of a larger team.

This is not a developer role, but you will need coding/scripting ability and an understanding of development processes and tools. You will be required to integrate and build solutions using cloud configuration management and version control tooling. You will have a strong understanding of Public Key Infrastructure and Key Management and a good understanding of Virtualization principals, Infrastructure as a Service and Networking.

Essential Job Functions & Attributes

• Able to listen and communicate well within the team and to internal stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work effectively both alone and within teams.
• An analytical, enquiring, and challenging mind with a desire to build, automate and improve.
• Suggest improvements and changes to increase value.
• Be focused on the automation of solutions.
• Create low-level designs and review, providing feedback on high-level designs.
• Participate in re-engineering of existing client solutions and services to ensure they leverage additional benefits provided through our Cloud Offerings.

• Build and refresh core components of the Public Key Infrastructure and Cloud Infrastructures.
• Build and rollout Public Key Infrastructure and Infrastructure and Environments for multiple clients.
• Engineer and develop scripts, code, and configurations.
• Be proactive and helpful in everything you do.

Basic Experience

• Solid Public Key Infrastructure experience.
• Solid Key Management experience, including BYOK and HYOK.
• Solid Certificate Management and Automation Experience.
• Proven track record with 3+ years of hands-on experience in the above.
• Experience in scripting in (i.e., PowerShell, REST API, PowerShell, JSON).

Other Experience Sought

• Experience and proficiency in security implementation best practices for Public Key Infrastructure, Key Management, Linux, Wintel, and Cloud Platforms.
• Good knowledge of Virtualization Technologies and Cloud Services.
• Secure Cloud Virtual/Managed Private Cloud experience.
• Understanding of common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, DHCP, TCP/IP, Subnetting, etc.).
• Understanding and deployment based on Security Principals and Security Best Practices.

• Experience in working with baselines and understanding good engineering and release practices.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Experience in containerization.
• Technical degree or equivalent education and experience.

Work Environment

• Remote working usually.
• Travel can be required, this is part of project work and is planned and coordinated, flexibility is required at times.
• Occasionally may require weekend and evening work.

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About Us

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues atDXC.com .