Senior SSH & Machine Identity Architect

State Street; Clifton (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Insurance coverage (medical, life, etc

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

State Street in New Jersey is seeking a senior engineer to own enterprise SSH capabilities, including an SSH Certificate Authority, key lifecycle management, and machine identity governance. You will lead design and adoption of SSH governance, building standards and automation across the organization.

This role connects SSH governance with broader cryptographic services strategy, collaborates with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams, and drives initiatives that reduce risk while improving

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cybersecurity, infrastructure, Linux, identity, PKI or privileged access engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of SSH, SSH keys, SSH certificates, Linux/Unix access patterns and privileged access controls.
• Experience with certificate authorities, PKI concepts, machine identity management and secrets management platforms.
• Experience automating identity, access or infrastructure workflows using scripts, APIs or orchestration tools.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise risk, audit evidence, operational controls and security standards.
• Strong ability to influence across multiple technology teams and drive adoption of new security capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and implementation of the enterprise SSH Certificate Authority capability.
• Define SSH certificate, SSH key lifecycle, trust and access patterns across the organization.
• Drive SSH key discovery, ownership mapping, remediation and lifecycle governance.
• Develop automation for SSH certificate issuance, rotation, revocation and reporting.
• Partner with infrastructure, Linux, cloud, privileged access and application teams to onboard SSH use cases.
• Align SSH capabilities with broader machine identity management, PKI and crypto operations strategies.
• Support vaults/secrets management integration points where SSH credentials or keys require stronger control.
• Define operational runbooks, monitoring requirements and escalation paths for SSH-related services.
• Support audit, risk and regulatory inquiries related to SSH controls and machine identities.
• Contribute to the long-term vision for centralized crypto operations support.

Skills

SSH expertise

Linux/Unix access controls

PKI / certificate authorities

Machine identity management

Automation scripting

Audit & risk awareness

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

State Street in New Jersey is seeking a senior engineer to own enterprise SSH capabilities, including an SSH Certificate Authority, key lifecycle management, and machine identity governance. You will lead design and adoption of SSH governance, building standards and automation across the organization.

This role connects SSH governance with broader cryptographic services strategy, collaborates with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams, and drives initiatives that reduce risk while improving