Sr PKI Engineer

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Role: Sr PKI Engineer

Location: 100% REMOTE

PKI/KMS/HSM/Certificates Architect, Engineer, & Implementer with minimal of 8 years of advanced hands-on experience in deploying, configuring, and managing certificated lifecycle management (KMS), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Certification Authorities (CA), Hardware Security Modules (HSM), Registration Authorities (RA), Root CA, Azure Key Vault, Thales, Venafi, and Entrust integration experience (PKI/HSM/KMS/CRL/CRT).

• Excellent knowledge in PKI  / HSM ecosystem (technology, standards, implementations, & migration)
• Building a mature enterprise-wide certificate management services and Public Key Infrastructure capabilities.  Supporting the definition, design, and deployment of enterprise PKI system.
• Ability to provide detailed specifications for PKI/KMS infrastructure.
• Administration, operation, upgrade and support of Certification Authorities (CA), Registration Authorities (RA), online responders, and Hardware Security Modules (HSM) of a Microsoft Windows-based enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
• Provide roadmap guidance and recommendations to existing environment and future landscape (including the assessment & discovery work).
• Maintain detailed procedures, policies, standards, baselines, and work instructions for PKI & KMS administration, advise on improvements.
• Takes an active leadership role in maintaining and communicating PKI/KMS industry changes, advising and directing leadership to ensure that PKI requirements are addressed.
• Ensure PKI systems align to the firms Information Security policies, standards, and the industry best practices.
• An understanding of SSH, especially the configuration and use of SSH keys for authentication.
• Experience with technologies that heavily use TLS/SSL encryption.
• Represent PKI Engineering on organizational project teams and ensure adherence to existing security policies and standards.
• Manage the successful technical delivery of Information Security projects and services for our customers by working directly with key business stakeholders, executives and project teams.
• Keep up on current technologies and maintain awareness of industry trends and threats, focusing on PKI/PKE technologies.

Qualifications/Experience:

• Experience in Entrust, HashiCorp, Thales, DigCert, and Venafi.
• Individuals in this role must be well versed and educated in common Information Security practices [8 years] and the CISSP domains, as well as possess general Information Technology experience.
• They must be able to leverage these experiences and education to identify opportunities for improvement of present information security environment, focusing on PKI, encryption, and certificate-based authentication solutions.
• Expert level experience with PKI implementation and certificate lifecycle management solution.
• Expert level experience with hardware security module (HSM) technology.
• Expert level experience in MS Certificate Management Services and Active Directory Domain Services.
• Expert level experience in SSL certificate management concepts, processes, and solution management.
• Expert level experience in cloud solution development with Azure architectures as it related to PKI management.
• Technical Skills:
• Public key infrastructure
• Strong authentication / multi-factor authentication technologies
• CodeSigning
• Cryptographic services
• Encryption
• Certificate Management  
• Data Protection

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Assurance, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems or related field of study.
• Certification Requirements:   A security industry certification is required including but not limited to CISSP, SSCP, CISM, SANS GSEC, ECSA, ECSP, and Security .