Cloud Cryptography Engineer — Data Protection Specialist

Eliassen Group; McLean (VA); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in McLean/Plano area seeks a Cryptography Engineer to lead data protection initiatives, cryptography workstreams, and security governance across cloud-native environments.

You will implement cryptographic solutions, manage Protegrity protections, and collaborate with product teams to secure financial services platforms while leveraging Ansible and Terraform for automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 2+ years cryptography experience.
• 3+ years cyber security engineering.
• 2+ years cloud-native tech (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• 2+ years Unix/Linux administration; 1+ year SELinux.
• 2+ years Protegrity Data Protection.
• 2+ years with Ansible, Terraform Enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of technology projects focused on cryptography and cloud-based security.
• Collaborate with Cyber product managers and architecture teams.
• Assess security risks to data confidentiality and integrity.
• Design and implement cryptographic solutions with secure key management.
• Mature cryptography governance: policies, standards, guidelines, auditability.
• Serve as SME for Protegrity Data Protection in 5x9 environment.
• Deliver automation with Ansible for large RHEL servers and Protegrity lifecycle.
• Use Terraform Enterprise for AWS serverless deployments; integrate with Protegrity Cloud Protector.
• Implement at-rest encryption with Protegrity Fuse File Encryption.
• Maintain and support Protegrity Data Protection policies.
• Manage integrations with Snowflake and Teradata.

Skills

Cryptography

Cyber security

Cloud-native

DevOps

Ansible

Terraform

Protegrity

Snowflake

Teradata

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Protegrity Data Protection

Terraform Enterprise

Ansible Automation Platform

Snowflake

Teradata

AWS

Job description

Eliassen Group in McLean/Plano area seeks a Cryptography Engineer to lead data protection initiatives, cryptography workstreams, and security governance across cloud-native environments.

You will implement cryptographic solutions, manage Protegrity protections, and collaborate with product teams to secure financial services platforms while leveraging Ansible and Terraform for automation.