Senior Consultant, Cryptographic Service Management

CIBC•Toronto, ON

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Consultant, Cryptographic Service Management, you will join CIBC’s Cybersecurity department to play a critical role in shaping and evolving the enterprise-wide cryptographic strategy. This position focuses on ensuring the security and resilience of CIBC’s cryptographic services, including Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), key management, X.509 certificates, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), cryptographic standards, and readiness for the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) era. Your work will directly contribute to protecting Our Bank, Our Clients, and Our Employees by embedding security into the lifecycle of applications and data across the enterprise. You will act as a liaison between technology and business teams, serving as a subject matter expert (SME) for cryptography and digital certificate and key lifecycle management. A core accountability of this role is to lead Digital Certificate and Key Automation onboarding into CIBC’s enterprise digital certificate and key management platforms. You will own the onboarding intake and delivery end-to-end by identifying and prioritizing candidate applications, defining onboarding requirements, establishing automation patterns, coordinating technical implementation, and ensuring operational readiness. This includes documenting onboarding standards and runbooks, guiding application teams through integration (e.g., key and certificate discovery, issuance, renewal, revocation, and policy enforcement), and partnering with platform, infrastructure, IAM, and application delivery teams to scale certificate and key automation across the enterprise. You will also provide strategic insights, report on service performance using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), and ensure the department’s cryptographic services—including the digital certificate and key automation program—align with enterprise goals, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.

Requirements

8 years of experience in cryptographic security concepts.
Implemented cryptographic solutions and methodologies to ensure the secure design of applications and the protection of sensitive data.
Been a key contributor to, or have led, cryptographic security initiatives such as encryption of data (at rest, in transit, and in use), as well as key management and cryptographic controls.
Strong understanding of data governance, data privacy, and regulatory requirements related to cryptography.
Passion for cryptographic security, vulnerability management, and adherence to industry cryptographic standards and best practices.
Ability to identify needs and contribute to governance initiatives by bringing expertise gained in the cryptography field around practical security governance, including the development of CIBC policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.
Technical expertise in support of all activities, processes, procedures, and tools related to cryptographic services.
Experience with key and certificate management systems, protocols, processes, as well as cryptographic hardware such as Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
CISSP, CISA, or CISM designation and are in good standing.
Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Relationships and networks are essential to success.
Inspire outcomes by sharing your expertise.
Details matter. Notice things that others don't.
Critical thinking skills help to inform your decision-making.
Values matter to you. Bring your real self to work, and live our values: trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Nice To Haves

Readiness for the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) era.
Experience with cloud, on-prem, containerized, and legacy application stacks.
Experience with APIs, service accounts, authentication and authorization models (e.g., mTLS, OAuth), secrets management, CI/CD and IaC tooling, and operational monitoring.
Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Certificate Authorities (CA).

Responsibilities

Manage and oversee the development and maintenance of strategic roadmaps for the domain of Data Security, leveraging deep knowledge of cryptographic technologies, including HSMs, key management, X.509 certificates, PKI, and cryptographic standards.
Collaborate with various stakeholders to gather requirements, develop business cases, and lead subsequent projects (including POCs) to support the strategy.
Maintain a continuous improvement mindset, evaluating and implementing new cryptographic technologies such as Post-Quantum Cryptography to address emerging threats and enhance the security of the domain.
Provide guidance on the secure design, implementation, and operation of cryptographic services across the enterprise.
Direct the review, development, testing, and implementation of cryptographic security plans, products, and control techniques.
Demonstrate deep, hands-on knowledge of system and application integration patterns required to operationalize cryptographic services and certificate automation at scale.
Lead and support integrations between enterprise platforms, PKI/CA/key services, KMIP, IAM, network and infrastructure services, and diverse application stacks (cloud, on-prem, containerized, legacy).
Define integration requirements and technical designs for key and certificate discovery, enrollment, renewal, rotation, revocation, and policy enforcement.
Understand and guide the use of APIs, service accounts, authentication and authorization models (e.g., mTLS, OAuth), secrets management, CI/CD and IaC tooling, and operational monitoring to enable resilient automated certificate lifecycle management.
Troubleshoot integration issues across application, middleware, and infrastructure layers to remove blockers and accelerate onboarding.
Build and present documentation to executive management and leadership teams, effectively conveying complex cryptographic concepts, strategies, and the benefits of proposed security programs.
Provide awareness and training to application development teams on cryptographic services, data protection, and industry best practices.
Assess business needs against potential risks and communicate recommendations to enhance the organization’s information security landscape.
Demonstrate exceptional collaboration and stakeholder management skills to drive alignment across diverse teams.
Act as a trusted advisor within the broader team, influencing application development, operational, and infrastructure teams to integrate cryptographic security controls into their design and product delivery.
Stay abreast of the latest threat landscape, proactively assessing emerging threats and their impact on organizational security posture.
Maintain relationships with peers from other banks and manage vendor relationships for security services and tools within the Cryptographic Services domain.
Define and report on KPIs and KRIs to measure cryptographic service performance and risk.
Apply strong problem-solving skills to analyze complex security challenges and propose effective solutions.
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of enterprise security frameworks, data protection, risk management principles, and regulatory requirements and industry standards related to cryptographic security.
Act as a security ambassador, advocating for cryptographic best practices and influencing infrastructure and application design activities.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Incentive pay
Banking benefits
Benefits program
Defined benefit pension plan
Employee share purchase plan
Vacation offering
Wellbeing support
MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program
Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development