Deloitte Innovation Hub | Cyber Security | Operational Key Management Engineer, Cairo, Egypt.
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In this role, you will play a crucial part in our comprehensive managed service to clients, focusing on essential daily operations.
- Key Management: You will oversee the secure generation, distribution, storage, and rotation of encryption keys, ensuring the protection of sensitive transaction and card data and maintaining the integrity of payment systems.
- Key Ceremony Preparation: You will prepare the key ceremony, where new cryptographic keys are generated, loaded and exported, using automated tools on a monthly basis to ensure precision and efficiency.
- Practical Arrangements: You will handle all practical arrangements necessary for key management and key ceremonies, ensuring that everything runs smoothly.
- Monthly Reporting: You will provide monthly reports to the client regarding our service level agreement (SLA) commitments, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Policy and Process Improvement: You will keep policies and standards up to date while continuously improving and optimizing our processes and procedures to enhance service delivery.
- Client Contact: You will manage client communication via email, responding to queries and requests, as well as organizing key renewals and key ceremonies.
Your proactive involvement in these areas will be vital to maintaining our high standards and delivering exceptional service to our clients.
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To succeed in your role as an Operational Key Management professional, you will need to have the following requirements:
Essentials
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a relevant degree.
- Fundamental knowledge of cryptography, for example the ability to distinguish between a public key and a certificate.
- Understanding of the cyber security landscape and its implications for protecting confidential information, for example safeguarding private keys and other sensitive material.
- A proactive approach, demonstrating strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical capabilities, critical thinking, and problem-solving mindset.
- Detailed-oriented, methodical and structured way of working.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in English.
Desirables
- Familiarity with cryptographic protocols and algorithms such as 3DES, AES and RSA.
- Knowledge of the payments landscape and relevant standards, including the Payment Card Industry (PCI).
- Practical knowledge of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and a willingness to further develop technical expertise.
- Experience in an operational cyber security role, not necessarily related to cryptographic systems (for example SOC analyst).
- A desire to learn and grow, develop new skills and stay up to date with relevant advances in the field, such as new standards, regulations, cryptographic algorithms and vulnerabilities.
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Location: Cairo, Egypt
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