Cryptography & Key Management Security Engineer

45 Woodward Poland Sp.zo.o; Niepołomice; Hybrid; PLN 156,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life & accidental insurance

Multisport package

Meal vouchers

Performance bonus

Hybrid work model

Relocation support

Educational support

Work-life balance

Job summary

Woodward is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer – Cryptography & Key Management to operate, maintain, and expand our CKMS, an HSM-backed platform used to securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys for code signing, signatures, and roots-of-trust across our products.

The role also covers broader product cybersecurity within Woodward’s Industrial Systems Team, including risk assessment, awareness/training, incident response, and lifecycle initiatives.

Qualifications

• Solid PKI knowledge: X.509 certificates, CAs, CSRs, CRLs, and certificate lifecycle management.
• Understanding of cryptographic key applications — code signing, digital signatures, roots-of-trust, and key-exchange methods.
• Familiarity with Hardware Security Modules and TPM 2.0.
• Comfortable working in Linux and scripting in bash, Windows and batch files, Python scripting.

Responsibilities

• Operate, administer, and maintain the CKMS, including the HSM appliances and support of client systems.
• Collaborate on CKMS crypto needs, methods, and deployment for new products and projects.
• Manage the cryptographic key lifecycle for products (generation, storage, distribution, rotation, backup, revocation).
• Administer X.509 certificates and support PKI/root-of-trust operations.
• Develop automation and tooling (Python, bash, PKCS#11/Cryptoki) to streamline key operations and integrations.
• Contribute to CKMS networking architecture and configuration of CKMS equipment and clients.
• Oversee Secure Development Lifecycle implementation based on ISA/IEC 62443-4-1; support product certification and audits.
• Identify and analyze cybersecurity risks and define risk treatment.
• Manage security requirements: derive requirements from standards; produce reports; review hardware/software requirements.
• Provide cybersecurity input into proposals and risk assessments; support new cyber tools and training.

Skills

PKI knowledge

X.509 certificates

HSM familiarity

Linux

Python scripting

Tools

PKCS#11/Cryptoki

HSM appliances

Job description

Woodward is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer – Cryptography & Key Management to operate, maintain, and expand our CKMS, an HSM-backed platform used to securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys for code signing, signatures, and roots-of-trust across our products.

The role also covers broader product cybersecurity within Woodward’s Industrial Systems Team, including risk assessment, awareness/training, incident response, and lifecycle initiatives.