EDT/Automation Engineer 182152

Key

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and lead end-to-end SSH key rotation activities for vendors and clients across EDT platforms.
• Act as the main liaison between internal teams, external vendors, and clients to coordinate schedules, dependencies, and execution plans.
• Track achievements, risks, issues, and dependencies; proactively communicate status and call out concerns as needed.
• Gather, analyze, and document business and technical requirements related to key rotations and data transmission processes.
• Ensure alignment to enterprise security standards, timelines, and control requirements.
• Maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and stakeholder communications related to key management activities.
• Support continuous improvement by finding opportunities to standardize, streamline, or automate SSH key management processes.
• Design, implement, and support secure file transfer solutions applying SFTP, FTPS, AS2, Connect: Direct (NDM), APIs, and cloud-native services.
• Develop automation solutions using Python, Shell scripting, and Go to streamline operational processes, key management activities, client onboarding, and platform administration.
• Identify operational gaps, recurring issues, and manual processes, and drive automation and process improvement initiatives.
• Fix and resolve file transfer, authentication, connectivity, and transmission issues across distributed, cloud, and mainframe environments.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive actions to improve platform reliability and reduce operational incidents.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to support new client onboarding, platform migrations, protocol upgrades, and modernization initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience coordinating and driving large-scale SSH key rotation programs involving external vendors, clients, and enterprise applications.
• Solid understanding of SSH authentication, key lifecycle management, encryption standards, and secure file transfer architectures.
• Ability to manage technical dependencies and stakeholder communications associated with security-driven initiatives.
• Proven ability to work as a team player in a multi-functional, enterprise environment.
• Strong technical foundation in:
• Data transmission technologies
• File transfer protocols (e.g., SFTP, FTP/S, NDM, AS2, API-based transfers)
• SSH keys, authentication concepts, and secure data exchange principles
• Working knowledge of IBM mainframe environments, distributed application architectures, and Cloud Service Provider (CSP) services.
• Experience translating technical concepts into clear business-impact discussions and vice versa.

Preferred

Qualifications

• Experience supporting or coordinating security-related initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Background working with EDT, batch processing, or large-scale data movement platforms.
• Exposure to audit, risk, or compliance-driven initiatives related to data security and access controls.
• Familiarity with automation, monitoring, or reporting tools in support of operational initiatives.
• Experience building operational dashboards and KPI reporting solutions.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as Transfer Family, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, EventBridge, and Systems Manager.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, firewalls, load balancing, proxies, and TCP/IP troubleshooting.

Work Style

• Highly collaborative and detail oriented.
• Organized, proactive, and execution focused.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, regulated enterprise environment with external dependencies.