PKI Engineer with Venafi Expertise

Talenzaa; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenzaa is seeking a PKI Engineer with Venafi expertise for a 100% remote role in the United States. The candidate should have deep PKI and cryptography knowledge, experience with Venafi Trust Protection Platform, and strong DevSecOps skills to implement certificate automation and identity solutions.

You will work on identity-centric security projects, integrate with cloud and on-prem platforms, and participate in Zero Trust and least-privilege governance across services and applications.

Qualifications

• Strong PKI architecture and certificate lifecycle understanding.
• Experience with certificate automation patterns and DevSecOps integrations.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand PKI architecture and certificate lifecycle processes.
• Implement certificate automation patterns and DevSecOps integrations.
• Troubleshoot complex identity and access management issues.
• Lead security solutions spanning identity and workforce security domains.

Skills

PKI & Crypto

Identity & Access

Zero Trust

Threat Modeling

DevSecOps

Automation

Tools

Venafi TPP

Windows IIS

F5

Kafka

ServiceNow

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

REST APIs

Ansible

Job description

Job Title: PKI Engineer with Venafi Expertise

Location: 100% Remote

Work Authorization: USC, GC and GC-EAD

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

PKI & Cryptography

• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• X.509 Certificates
• TLS/SSL
• Certificate Authorities (CA)
• Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
• OCSP
• Key Management
• Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
• Code Signing Certificates
• Root and Intermediate CA Management
• Venafi Trust Protection Platform (TPP)
• Certificate Discovery
• Adaptable Apps
• Native Drivers
• Reporting and Governance
• Certificate Lifecycle Workflows

Platforms & Integrations

• Windows IIS
• F5 Load Balancers
• Apache
• Tomcat
• WebLogic
• Kafka
• Solace
• ServiceNow Integrations

DevOps & Automation

• GitHub Actions
• PowerShell
• Python
• REST APIs
• Ansible
• Infrastructure Automation

Security Domains

• Authorization
• Identity & Access Management
• Secrets Management
• Zero Trust Principles
• Security Monitoring

Responsibilities

• Strong understanding of PKI architecture and certificate lifecycle processes.
• Experience implementing certificate automation patterns and DevSecOps integrations.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Lead Identity centric Workforce Security team to develop authentication and access management solutions
• Drive the development of identity solutions, access patterns, modern security protocols, practicing Zero trust, least privileged, defense in depth principles
• Good understanding of AI concepts, Patterns and impact on identity and access management domain
• Participate and engage in AI adoption with Identity focus, knowledge and understanding of Entra ID agentic Identity, authentication flows and Patterns
• Review and provide feedback on Identity and access management related security solutions proposed by stakeholders and can provide consultation to the partners and IT Management
• In-depth knowledge and experience on Entra ID, EPM, Sentinel, Azure, AWS Security
• Knowledge on Okta, PingFederate, Entitlement management solutions
• Strong knowledge on Identities management on Azure AD with OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SSO, MFA, Conditional access policies, MFA, Kerberos, LDAP, Identity Federations etc.
• Experience in providing security solutions for Java based Micro services, React based frontends and Android/iOS based mobile applications on the Azure
• Awareness of API Management, Firewalls, DLP, VPNs, DNS, Azure Defender, MCAS, Sentinel, WAFs, Application Gateways, NSGs, App Proxy, Radius clusters, CDN etc.
• Good understanding of Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management solution (CIEM) to ensure smooth remediation of toxic combinations, high risk entitlements etc.
• Understanding and application of threat modeling concepts and methodologies
• Acts as Workforce cybersecurity expert to in solutions spanning end user computing, proxy solutions, MFA, SSO, conditional accesses, Passwordless, Yubikey, bio-metric solutions, identity and governance scenarios, Secrets Management, automation, role based access control, Privileged identity management, Just in time accesses etc.
• Participates in solutions to support- token handling, OIDC/ OAuth flows, authorization patterns, identity federation, cloud architectures, cryptography, cloud native services, cloud security etc.
• Deeper understanding on Cloud Security areas such as Policies, RBAC, activities, identities, privileged access management etc.
• Ability to support operations in troubleshooting complex identity scenarios with hands-on experience on Sentinel/KQL/Audit logs etc.
• Good understanding of concepts related to docker Security, container orchestrations/Kubernetes