Cloud Security Engineer Data Protection & Cryptography Lead

Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

HSA

Life insurance

401K

EAP

Training opportunities

Direct deposit

Job summary

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is seeking a Cloud Engineer to lead data protection and cryptography initiatives in a mission‑critical environment. The role focuses on encryption, tokenization, key management, and policy governance within enterprise cloud platforms.

You will collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to deliver secure cloud solutions, mentor engineers, and drive security best practices across AWS and on‑prem environments.

Qualifications

• Cryptography experience required; knowledge of data protection practices.
• 3+ years cybersecurity engineering experience.
• 2+ years cloud-native tech (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• 2+ years Unix/Linux administration.
• 2+ years Protegrity data protection solutions.
• 2+ years Ansible Automation Platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead cryptography, distributed microservices, cloud platforms, and full‑stack systems.
• Partner with Cyber product managers, architects, and engineering teams to deliver secure, cloud‑based solutions.
• Assess security risks related to data confidentiality and integrity, identify vulnerabilities, and evaluate potential cyber threats.
• Design, implement, and support cryptographic solutions, including encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and secure key management.
• Help mature the enterprise cryptography governance framework, including policies, standards, guidelines, compliance, and auditability.
• Serve as the technical lead and subject‑matter expert for a 5x9 mission‑critical data protection environment.
• Support Protegrity Data Encryption and Tokenization solutions, including data protection policies and platform integrations.
• Develop and maintain Ansible automation for the lifecycle management of Protegrity Agent software across a large Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.
• Use Terraform Enterprise to support AWS serverless deployments and integrations with Protegrity Cloud Protector.
• Implement and support at‑rest encryption using Protegrity Fuse File Encryption technologies.
• Maintain, enhance, and troubleshoot Protegrity data protection policies.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, mentor engineers, and contribute to coding or code reviews as needed.

Skills

Cryptography

Cloud security

DevOps

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Protegrity

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Linux

Job description

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is seeking a Cloud Engineer to lead data protection and cryptography initiatives in a mission‑critical environment. The role focuses on encryption, tokenization, key management, and policy governance within enterprise cloud platforms.

You will collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to deliver secure cloud solutions, mentor engineers, and drive security best practices across AWS and on‑prem environments.