Backend SDET

Quick Facts

• Role: Backend SDET (Contract)
• Location: Boston, Massachusetts
• Schedule: 8am–5pm
• Education: Bachelor’s

Description

Support security-focused enterprise initiatives spanning SSH key rotation and secure data transfer platforms. You will coordinate end-to-end execution across vendors and clients, build automation and operational reporting solutions, and design secure file transfer capabilities using SFTP/FTPS/AS2 and cloud-native services.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and lead end-to-end SSH key rotation activities across EDT platforms.
• Serve as the main liaison between internal teams and external vendors/clients to manage schedules, dependencies, and execution plans.
• Track risks, issues, dependencies, and proactively communicate status.
• Gather, analyze, and document business and technical requirements for key rotations and data transmission processes.
• Ensure alignment to enterprise security standards, timelines, and control requirements.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and stakeholder communications for key management.
• 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, and Go to streamline operational processes (key management, onboarding, administration).
• Identify operational gaps and recurring issues; drive automation and process improvement.
• 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 reliability and reduce incidents.
• Collaborate on new client onboarding, platform migrations, protocol upgrades, and modernization initiatives.

Requirements

• Experience coordinating and driving large-scale SSH key rotation programs with external vendors, clients, and enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of SSH authentication, key lifecycle management, encryption standards, and secure file transfer architectures.
• Ability to manage technical dependencies and stakeholder communications for security-driven initiatives.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-functional, enterprise environment.
• Solid technical foundation in data transmission technologies and secure file transfer protocols (SFTP, FTP/S, NDM, AS2, API-based transfers).
• Working knowledge of IBM mainframe environments, distributed application architectures, and cloud service provider services.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business-impact discussions and vice versa.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance; short-term disability; and a 401K plan (eligibility-based).