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Must Have Skills

• 3–7+ years of hands-on experience in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), cybersecurity engineering, or infrastructure security.

• Strong expertise in certificate lifecycle management (CLM), including certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, and automation.

• Hands-on experience with enterprise PKI platforms such as Venafi, DigiCert, Microsoft CA/ADCS, or AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

• Solid understanding of TLS/SSL, X.509 certificates, cryptography, encryption, and key management.

• Experience with PKI automation using APIs, PowerShell, Python, scripting, or CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of cloud certificate services in AWS and/or Azure.

• Experience with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and trust store management.

• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, PCI-DSS, and CMMC.

• Proven ability to maintain secure, scalable, and highly available PKI environments.

• Experience identifying and mitigating certificate expiration, misconfiguration, and trust-related risks.

• Strong collaboration skills to work with application, infrastructure, and security teams on PKI integration and modernization.

1. PKI Infrastructure & Operations

Ensure availability, resiliency, and patching of PKI infrastructure Support certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, and lifecycle management

2. Certificate Lifecycle Management

Manage large-scale certificate environments across applications and infrastructure Ensure timely renewal and replacement of certificates

Support trust store management and certificate chain integrity

3. Automation & Integration

Build and implement automation for certificate lifecycle management Tanesha Magby

Integrate PKI services with enterprise platforms (CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, applications)

Deploy and operationalize tools such as connectors and automation pipelines

4. Governance, Standards & Policy Enforcement

Enforce security policies related to certificate usage and cryptography

Define and maintain standards for certificate issuance, validity, and usage

Support compliance with regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, CMMC, PCI, TSA directives)

5. Cross-Team Collaboration

Partner with application and infrastructure teams to enable certificate automation

Provide guidance and supporting tooling while ensuring clear ownership boundaries

Assist teams with onboarding to PKI services and automation

6. Risk Reduction & Incident Support

Identify and remediate risks related to certificate expiration, misconfiguration, or trust failures

Support incident response involving certificate or encryption issues

Improve visibility and reporting for certificate health and compliance

7. Emerging Crypto & Future Readiness

Support adoption of new cryptographic standards (e.g., post-quantum cryptography)

Assist in modernization of PKI architecture and tooling

Evaluate new solutions for scalability and resilience

Must be able to hit the ground running.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)

• 3–7+ years in PKI, cybersecurity engineering, or infrastructure security

• Hands-on experience with certificate lifecycle management

• Experience with PKI tools/platforms (e.g., Venafi, DigiCert, Microsoft CA, AWS ACM)

• Understanding of TLS/SSL, cryptographic principles, and key management

• Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.

• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.

• Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.

Experience with:

HSMs and key custody operations

PKI automation (APIs, pipelines, scripting)

Cloud certificate services (AWS, Azure)

Knowledge of compliance frameworks (NIST, PCI-DSS, CMMC)

Experience scaling PKI in large enterprise environments

Familiarity with trust store management across distributed systems.