EDT Engineer Automation Engineer

Kforce has a client that is seeking an EDT Engineer Automation Engineer in Boston, MA.

Duties:

• 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
• Experience coordinating and driving large-scale SSH key rotation programs involving external vendors, clients, and enterprise applications
• Experience translating technical concepts into clear business-impact discussions and vice versa
• Solid understanding of SSH authentication, key lifecycle management, encryption standards, and secure file transfer architectures
• Working knowledge of IBM mainframe environments, distributed application architectures, and Cloud Service Provider (CSP) services
• 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

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