Remote: Lead Cybersecurity Engineer & Cryptography SME

KellyMitchell Group; Plano (TX); Remote; USD 68,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)

401K offered

Job summary

KellyMitchell Group is seeking a Cyber Security Engineering Lead / Cryptography SME to join a leading financial services and technology provider. This senior role focuses on designing and implementing enterprise cryptographic solutions, including encryption, hashing, and digital signatures, in a cloud and data platform environment.

You will lead Protegrity data protection deployments, build infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform, and collaborate with security, architecture, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on cryptography experience.
• 2+ years configuring Protegrity Data Protection solutions.
• 2+ years in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• 2+ years of Unix/Linux administration (SELinux).
• 2+ years of IaC with Ansible and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance enterprise cryptographic solutions across encryption, hashing, and digital signatures.
• Lead Protegrity data protection environments including tokenization and file protection.
• Develop infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform for large-scale Linux/cloud environments.
• Assess security risks, perform threat modeling, and propose mitigations.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, architecture, engineering, and development teams to implement data protection across cloud and data platforms.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Cryptography

Protegrity

Cloud platforms

Unix/Linux

IaC (Ansible Terraform)

Threat modeling

Python/Java/Go

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity/Engineering

Tools

Protegrity Data Protection

Protegrity Cloud Protector

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

KellyMitchell Group is seeking a Cyber Security Engineering Lead / Cryptography SME to join a leading financial services and technology provider. This senior role focuses on designing and implementing enterprise cryptographic solutions, including encryption, hashing, and digital signatures, in a cloud and data platform environment.

You will lead Protegrity data protection deployments, build infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform, and collaborate with security, architecture, and