PQC Strategy & Crypto Readiness Lead

Protiviti Middle East Member Firm; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Protiviti Middle East Member Firm seeks a cybersecurity professional with strengths in cryptography, PKI and security architecture to support Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) capabilities. The role covers readiness, cryptographic discovery, CBOM development, quantum-risk assessment, and migration planning.

Responsibilities include leading PQC workstreams, presenting to clients, and contributing to PQC methodology templates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, Engineering or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Conduct PQC readiness and cryptographic maturity assessments.
• Support cryptographic discovery and CBOM development.
• Identify cryptographic dependencies across applications, infrastructure, cloud and networks.
• Assess PKI, certificates, HSM, KMS, TLS, VPN and key-management environments.
• Support quantum-risk assessments, crypto-agility strategies, target architectures and PQC migration roadmaps.
• Assist PQC pilots, vendor/product evaluations and technology assessments across discovery, PKI/CLM, HSM/KMS and PQC enablement.
• Prepare client deliverables, executive presentations, proposals and reusable PQC methodologies/templates.

Skills

Cryptography fundamentals

PKI

Security architecture

Enterprise security tech

RSA

ECC

AES

Hashing

Digital signatures

Key exchange

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Protiviti Middle East Member Firm seeks a cybersecurity professional with strengths in cryptography, PKI and security architecture to support Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) capabilities. The role covers readiness, cryptographic discovery, CBOM development, quantum-risk assessment, and migration planning.

Responsibilities include leading PQC workstreams, presenting to clients, and contributing to PQC methodology templates.