Job Summary:
Seeking a highly motivated Senior EDT Engineer / Automation Engineer to lead and manage SSH key rotation initiatives for external vendors and clients across Electronic Data Transmission (EDT) ecosystems. This role combines technical engineering expertise, automation development, operational support, and project execution to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable file transfer services. The successful candidate will serve as the technical coordinator for enterprise key management activities, partnering with clients, vendors, cybersecurity teams, and engineering teams to drive timely and compliant SSH key rotations while minimizing operational risks. The role also involves identifying automation opportunities, developing solutions using Python, Shell, Go, and Ansible, and contributing to the modernization and continuous improvement of data transmission platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
• Plan, coordinate, and lead end-to-end SSH key rotation activities for vendors and clients across EDT platforms.
• Act as the primary liaison between internal teams, external vendors, and clients to coordinate schedules, dependencies, and execution plans.
• Track achievements, risks, issues, and dependencies; proactively communicate project status and highlight concerns as needed.
• Gather, analyze, and document business and technical requirements related to key rotations and data transmission processes.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security standards, timelines, and control requirements.
• Maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and stakeholder communications related to key management activities.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, streamline, and automate SSH key management processes.
• Design, implement, and support secure file transfer solutions using SFTP, FTPS, AS2, Connect:Direct (NDM), APIs, and cloud-native services.
• Develop automation solutions using Python, Shell scripting, Go, and Ansible 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.
• Troubleshoot 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 Qualifications:
• Experience coordinating and managing large-scale SSH key rotation programs involving external vendors, clients, and enterprise applications.
• Strong 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.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multifunctional enterprise environment.
• Strong technical foundation in data transmission technologies.
• Experience with file transfer protocols such as SFTP, FTP/S, NDM, AS2, and API-based transfers.
• Knowledge of 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 supporting 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.
