Cryptography Infrastructure Engineer

Talent Smart

Sheffield, United Kingdom

5 months ago

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Posted: 23 Dec 2025 (5 months ago)

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We are looking for a Cryptography Infrastructure Engineer to join a financial services client based in Sheffield. There will be a requirement to be in the office once every two-weeks. The contract is also inside IR35.

The Role

The objective will be to support the Cryptography team who are responsible for protecting the identity, confidentiality and authenticity of trillions of dollars of transactions globally.

We are looking for an SME in cyber security and cryptography who can help improve their HSM observability for their entire encryption estate. The existing HSM observability is ready to be taken to the next level, improving its resilience, increased monitoring capabilities and faster alerting.

We specifically require someone with expertise in either Thales Luna, nShield or payShield HSMs.

Key Responsibilities:

Be part of a team that implements a new monitoring and alerting solution based upon Splunk
Have specific knowledge about Entrust nShield HSMs, payShield HSMs or Luna HSMs, and pulling relevant data from the device (via SNMP)
Closely collaborate with team members - as SME for HSMs, but also other HSMs.
Work closely with stakeholders to understand requirement details.
Write a design and test specification for your responsibility in the observability project
Contribute to documentation of the project
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