PKI Operations Engineer – Hybrid (Fort Meade)

AUGUST SCHELL ENTERPRISES, INC.; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

August Schell Enterprises, Inc. seeks a PKI Operations Engineer to sustain and operate a DoD PKI environment in support of a DISA customer at Fort Meade. The role focuses on RHCS, CA availability, certificate lifecycle, and CVE remediation, with automation to reduce toil.

You will work hybrid and on-site as requested, collaborating with government and contractor teams, and supporting PQC migration and operational modernization efforts.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance minimum (Top Secret preferred).
• Local to the DMV area with ability to work on site at Fort Meade.
• Five+ years of relevant systems/operations engineering experience.
• Strong Linux (RHEL) systems administration and patching.
• Experience with PKI, x.509, cryptography and security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Operate and sustain the production PKI environment on RHCS.
• Manage RA/CRL/OCSP operations and certificate lifecycle at scale.
• onboard new customers, enclaves, and use cases onto the PKI.
• Own CVE remediation and patch management for PKI and hosts.
• Monitor system health; build alerting, logging, dashboards; incident response.
• Operate and troubleshoot HSM integrations supporting CA operations.

Skills

PKI operations

RHEL Linux

Python/Bash scripting

ACME/CA automation

HSM operations

RHCS/Dogtag

Tools

RHCS (Red Hat Certificate System)

Podman/Docker

KVM virtualization

LDAP/Directory Services

Job description

August Schell Enterprises, Inc. seeks a PKI Operations Engineer to sustain and operate a DoD PKI environment in support of a DISA customer at Fort Meade. The role focuses on RHCS, CA availability, certificate lifecycle, and CVE remediation, with automation to reduce toil.

You will work hybrid and on-site as requested, collaborating with government and contractor teams, and supporting PQC migration and operational modernization efforts.