PKI Engineer

AppLab Systems, Inc; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AppLab Systems, Inc. is seeking a PKI Engineer in Dallas to manage certificate authority workflows, AD integration, and platform authentication across Windows and Unix environments.

You will automate PKI operations, implement robust key management, and ensure auditability. Strong scripting, Venafi experience, and collaboration with Security and Infra teams are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT infrastructure with PKI/security focus.
• Experience with certificate lifecycle management and CA control.
• Experience with Venafi or similar PKI tooling.
• Proficiency in operating and automating PKI on Windows and Linux.
• Knowledge of LDAP, MFA, OCSP and related security standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enforce CA management controls and platforms integration.
• Automate PKI lifecycle tasks and ensure auditable processes.
• Collaborate with Security and Infrastructure teams for end-to-end PKI solutions.
• Maintain risk-based key management and encryption configurations.
• Provide manual and automated PKI reports and dashboards.

Skills

Agile development

RBAC management

Scripting: Python/PowerShell

PKI knowledge

SSH key management

TLS/Encryption concepts

Audit/reporting

Cryptography fundamentals

stakeholder communication

Linux/Windows server experience

Tools

Venafi

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Note :- In-person Interview required

The candidate right for this role, Public Key Infrastructure Engineer would be responsible for ensuring the processes and controls are developed and implemented around the Certificate Authority (CA) Management core, Active Directory and the platform authentication (Windows and Unix). This role would work to develop and integrate the various tools to better automate and manage the Public Key Infrastructure and ensure auditability for management of these systems. This role is expected to work cross capability with Security and infrastructure to ensure full integration and automation.

Job Title: PKI Engineer

Location: Dallas TX 75202

Note :- In-person Interview required

The candidate right for this role, Public Key Infrastructure Engineer would be responsible for ensuring the processes and controls are developed and implemented around the Certificate Authority (CA) Management core, Active Directory and the platform authentication (Windows and Unix). This role would work to develop and integrate the various tools to better automate and manage the Public Key Infrastructure and ensure auditability for management of these systems. This role is expected to work cross capability with Security and infrastructure to ensure full integration and automation.

Required Skills And Experience

• Working within an agile development methodology (Kanban, Scrum, etc)
• Hand-on-experience with Certificate Life Cycle Management Tool Venafi.
• In-depth knowledge of managing keys and RBAC via Venafi System.
• Well versed with integration and enrollment via defined workflows.
• Responsible for providing manual and automated reports through venafi system.
• Experience with continuous delivery and deployment.
• Experience assessing of data protection approaches, requirements, and activities.
• Certification Authorities, Two-Factor Authentication, MFA, LDAP Directories, OCSP, ICAM and the standards relating to them.
• Understanding of cryptography, key management, masking, tokenization, or other data protection technologies
• Experience utilizing and deploying encryption technologies such as TLS, PGP, PKI, and HSM
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing methods
• principles and concepts
• An understanding of SSH, especially the configuration and use of SSH keys for authentication.
• Experience with high-level script languages such as Python, along with shell scripting in KSH, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Knowledge and experience of network and system security solutions, concepts, and technologies.
• Experience with distributed platforms such as Linux. Windows server is a plus.
• Have clear and concise communication and be comfortable working with all levels in the organization
• Effective at both collaboration and negotiation with internal stakeholders.
• Capable of managing and prioritize multiple projects with competing resource requirements and timelines
• 10 yrs+ working in an IT Infrastructure related role along with associated design experience.

Preferred

• Demonstrated experience with server configuration management (infrastructure automation) tools (i.e. - Ansible, Puppet)
• Experience supporting enterprise server hardware (Dell or Client)
• Experience with Identity Management solutions such as IBM's TIM/TAM
• Experience with IOT devices and management a plus
• Design and implement solutions for integration within client environments for various Red Hat products such as IdM (Identity Management), Satellite, RHV (Red Hat Virtualization), RHDS (Red Hat Directory Server), Ceph, etc.
• AWS Cloud experience including core services EC2, S3, ALB/NLB, Lambda, RDS
• Experience of designing, optimizing and troubleshooting public cloud platforms associated with large, complex application stacks
• 3 yrs+ working in a PKI environment and bonus points for working with AWS public cloud environments
• AWS hands on experience of designing and managing AWS cloud solutions
• Previous experience working as a either a Technical Architect, Solutions Architect, Technical Design Authority or Solutions

Designer would be preferred