The Role
As a Crypto Security Specialist, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You will use your experience to apply High Grade cryptography and key management expertise to customer mission challenges through research, advice, consultancy or engineering and working with colleagues from different professional disciplines and organisations.
Day-to-day, you will:
1. Lead technical work to identify and derive security requirements, develop/analyse innovative solutions, and understand/shape both the “big picture” and technical details in crypto security domain
2. Deliver high quality analysis, designs, reports, and presentations that focus on customer problems and solutions in crypto-security domain and develop positive customer and stakeholder relationships.
3. Collaborate and consult as part of a team in response to requests in the crypto security domain.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, based at Malvern Technology Centre with a flexible, adaptive working options.
Essential experience of the Crypto Security Specialist:
4. Able to advise on how to integrate High grade crypto into wider systems and key management to achieve security outcome in accordance with accepted national good practice (recognised expert consensus)
5. Able to take high-level security objectives and break these down into the security requirements for a relatively complex crypto system in a mission context.
6. Able to propose / design new approaches to meet security requirements for a crypto system in a mission context
7. Understand cyber security, its significance, concepts, threats, vulnerabilities and assurance.
Qualifications for the Crypto Security Specialist:
8. Degree level education or equivalent
9. Minimum of 3 years of experience working with crypto and key management technology in an academic research or industrial environment or a combination, if however, you have slightly less experience in this domain, you still may be able to be considered
Our Benefits
10. Adaptive and flexible working
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
15. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
16. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
17. Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community
Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an= diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.