Data Protection/Encryption Engineer II

Summary

Join Experian, a world-leading information services company, as an Encryption Engineer. You will design, operate, and manage cryptographic infrastructure, focusing on key management and data security. Responsibilities include integrating encryption, identifying capability gaps, reporting progress, and ensuring documentation is up-to-date. You will collaborate with teams, contribute to roadmaps, and maintain security certifications. This permanent, home-based role in Costa Rica offers various benefits, including comprehensive insurance, flexible work arrangements, paid time off, bonuses, and professional development opportunities. Experience with data encryption, key management systems (like AWS KMS or HSMs), and cloud platforms is essential.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Data Encryption Engineer
• Experience guiding and training development teams on how to encrypt data on premises or the cloud and how to manage the lifecycle around the encryption keys and store them securely
• Experience using AWS KMS, Cloud HSM, Gemalto/ Thales HSM or Key Management will be required
• Experience working with business teams to understand and document encryption and Key Management strategy of IT driven products and services
• Spoken and written English capability is required

Responsibilities

• Design, perform operations, engineering, automation, and daily management of Crypto infrastructure, which includes Windows and Linux servers, COTS appliances, and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to provide cryptographic capabilities to customers
• Explain the Integration guides and follow the steps to integrate encryption and key management as applicable
• Work under the guidance of the manager to execute integrations/maintenance of existing integrations following the team's and managers guidance
• Collaborate with the Manager to Identify capability gaps and operational inconsistencies within the Data Protection controls environment and develop a plan to address through product enhancement, reconfiguration, upgrades and/or automation of processes
• Report progress against Plan weekly
• Provide inputs to Refresh Data Protection roadmap/s quarterly
• Ensure Technical and Process documentation is 100% current all the time (all changes thoroughly documented)
• Ensure new builds/integrations/agent implementation follow operational readiness processes, are documented, health/performance KPI's are defined and in place, and monitoring and alerting is in place before promoting to production
• Follow change governance and guidance from the team (including documented processes where available and applicable)
• Demonstrate continual progress toward obtaining a security-specific (or specific security product certification)- or maintain a current certification
• Complete two career-related training courses per year
• Attend lunch and learn sessions to share knowledge with Engineering group

Preferred Qualifications

• Beneficial experience architecting and implementing encryption strategies on AWS, Azure on Google cloud including working on CMKs and integrating with a third party HSM "provider"
• Experience setting up, managing and running PKI and automating certificate lifecycle management
• Portuguese proficiency desired

Benefits

• Medical, life, vision and dental insurance
• Asociacion Solidarista
• International Share Save Plan
• Flex Work/Work from home
• Paid time off
• Birthday day off
• Annual Performance Bonus
• Education Reimbursement
• Family Bonding
• Bereavement Leave
• Referral Program