VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer

Synchrony•Orlando, FL

2d•$135,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer will serve as a key role in safeguarding enterprise multi-cloud systems, networks, and data. The position is responsible for designing, developing, driving, implementing, leading and managing multi-cloud Information Security Engineering activities for the Cryptography program, including the underlying capabilities/technologies. In addition, this role will be responsible for acting as a trusted peer and stakeholder advisor within the organization, working closely with Information Security Engineering leadership to ensure delivery of the overall program roadmap against the Cryptography strategy and vision. The VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer is part of the Synchrony Information Security Cryptography Team, serving as a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) lead while supporting other efforts, such as Cloud Security, Cryptography, Information Security, Key/Secrets Management, Privacy, and Tokenization. The candidate would have an engineering position focused on delivering critical/key enterprise data protection controls, efficient supporting processes, & comprehensive automation capabilities to protect & enable Synchrony’s Information Security Engineering strategy at scale. The candidate is expected to have a strong understanding and technical work experience with Cloud Security, Cryptography, DevSecOps, Information Security, Key/Secrets Management, PKI (competency skills/work experience domains include automation, controls, governance, lifecycle management, operations, process engineering, and security standards development).

Requirements

Bachelor degree with a minimum of 5 years experience in Application Development, Information Security, Systems Engineering or related field; in lieu of a degree, a High School Diploma/GED and minimum 7 years equivalent work experience
Minimum 3+ years of experience in Cloud
Minimum 3+ years of experience in Cryptography
Minimum 3+ years of experience in DevSecOps
Minimum 3+ years of experience in leadership roles (as Cryptography Engineer is preferred)
Minimum 4+ years of experience with regulatory compliance and information security management frameworks (e.g., COBIT, ISO27001, NIST, etc.)
Proficient hands-on technical/working expertise with API development, API security, AWS (Certificate Manager, KMS, Private CA, Secrets Manager), Azure (Key Vault), big data, CI/CD pipelines, Cloudbees/Jenkins, Cloudera, containers, cryptography methodologies, data encryption, databases, GCP (Cloud KMS, Secret Manager) Git/Github, Go, HashiCorp Vault, Java, key/secrets management, Linux, Perl, PKI, Python, storage security, Terraform, tokenization
Excellent oral communication and writing skills. Adept and presenting complex topics, influencing and executing with timely / actionable follow-through

Nice To Haves

Ability to work under pressure and sustain productivity with multiple simultaneous projects across cross-functional engineering and operational information security teams
Certifications in audit, big data, cloud, cybersecurity, governance, information security, PCI, privacy, risk; AWS, Azure, CSA, GCP, GIAC, IAPP, ISC2, ISACA, PCI
Cloud Security experience, especially around designing, building, managing solutions with the following vendors: AWS (Primary) Azure GCP
Creativity and individual thinking, the ability to work both independently & with teams
Cyber Security experience, especially around designing, building, managing solutions
Demonstrate technical expertise in existing Information Technology/Security systems with the ability to keep pace with evolving security and technologies
Demonstrate an understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering consistent, efficient, high quality, reliable and responsive service to the business
Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of emerging business and end-user technologies have on Information Security architecture/engineering requirements
Demonstrated experience communicating complex and technical issues to diverse audiences (verbally and in writing), in an actionable and easy to understand manner
Demonstrated team focused mentality with proven experience to work effectively with diverse stakeholders
Experience with Agile, Scaled Agile (SAFe), Scrum
Familiarity with problem and incident management, change management, notifications, and basic operational understanding of running and maintaining infrastructure
Proven strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven track record of weighing relative benefits/costs of potential actions and identifying the most appropriate one
Strong and efficient problem-solving and analytical skills, willingness to learn
Strong interpersonal skills with an emphasis on demonstrating previous experience at effectively influencing others, cross functionally at all levels within the organization
Understanding of information security practices and policies, including risks and threats
Understanding of various public cloud deployment/platform/service models from a development, engineering, infrastructure, and information security aspect

Responsibilities

Adopting and promoting engineering excellence by identifying efficiencies and synergies through means of automation, collaboration, and orchestration
Collaborates with architecture to identify capability gaps, develop requirements, identify solutions to address, assist with proof of concepts and testing of solutions
Implementation and technical lead responsibilities that include ongoing DevSecOps/Engineering support for a global cryptography program that leverages a portfolio of multi-cloud data protection capabilities
Managing technology from the ground up and understanding gaps within the tech stack, including overlap with other technology and/or coverage, capability gaps
Maintaining technology from a business as usual (BAU) aspect by ensuring the proper change management, disaster recover, incident management processes are occurring and current
Participate as one of several technical leads on team of Information Security engineers
Participate in authoring, editing, providing, or reviewing documentation (procedures, standards) to ensure a well-managed and mature security infrastructure
Partners with peers within the organization to effectively prioritize work by using Agile processes and ensuring risks, impediments, and asks are brought to leadership in a timely fashion
Plays a hands-on role in the engineering and implementation of multi-cloud security measures that protect enterprise applications, computer systems, information, infrastructure, and networks
Plays a key role in designing and building multi-cloud solutions that safeguard the organizations platforms and systems
Proactively identifies problems and clearly articulates solutions and recommendations
Provide day-to-day administration and support for multi-cloud infrastructure related to API, application security, firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection systems, PKI, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, security monitoring tools, penetration testing, authentication, web filtering, identity management, or access control systems, and their associated logs and processes
Providing engineering/operations support for multi-cloud technology and processes, ensuring superior customer service is being met, and identifying process improvements
Serving as a leader, mentor, and subject-matter expert (SME) to other Information Security team members and/or stakeholders throughout the organization
Serving as a SAFe Product Owner for cryptographic technologies, accountable for defining/leading/maintaining the team backlog and product roadmap
Supporting a “you build it you own it” model – meaning the technology built by Engineering is also supported from a wing-to-wing operations aspect
Works closely with Information Security program manager, scrum master, and architects to convey technical impacts to development/engineering timeline and risks
Work independently in identifying opportunities to improve engineering or other performance for Information Security/Technology & other functions across Synchrony
Work with Enterprise and Information Security/Technology application owners, architects, developers, engineers, and governance teams to drive program delivery
Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned