Cryptography and PKI Security Specialist in Sheffield

This is a great job for someone who enjoys working at the heart of cyber security and wants to play a key role in protecting critical services through encryption, key management and cryptographic controls.

You’ll thrive in this role if you have experience supporting PKI services, Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), cryptographic operations, and you’re looking to grow your expertise within a large, complex organisation. Join Aviva's Cyber Protection Services team and help keep our customers, colleagues and business secure.

As a Cryptography and PKI Specialist, you’ll be responsible for governing and managing Aviva's encryption capabilities, including our PKI lifecycle management and automation, key management platform, and HSM estate. You’ll act as a subject matter expert for cryptographic services, helping maintain secure, reliable operations while identifying and reducing cyber risks. Working closely with technical teams, suppliers and stakeholders across the business, you’ll help ensure our security controls are effective, resilient and ready for the future.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience working within a cryptographic operations, cyber security or information security environment, including cryptographic key handling processes
• Knowledge of key ceremonies, segregation of duties and split knowledge principles
• Experience managing PKI services using a Certificate Lifecycle Management platform, including certificate automation
• Experience working with Thales technologies, including HSM lifecycle management and Cipher Trust Manager
• Good understanding of cyber security standards, frameworks and security incident response, alongside strong stakeholder management and communication skills

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary circa £55,000 (depending on location, skills, experience and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's
• Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further – up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in Aviva's success through our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Aviva is for Everyone. We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares. We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week, combining the benefits of flexibility with time together with colleagues.

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