PKI & Venafi Engineer: TLS, Certificate Automation & IAM

The Judge Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking an experienced PKI Engineer with Venafi expertise to lead identity and access security initiatives in a hybrid Chicago-based team. You will manage PKI, TLS certificates, and automation across Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud services, delivering scalable, zero-trust security solutions.

Five-plus years in PKI and three-plus years with Venafi are expected, along with strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting PKI, TLS Certificates, or Certificate Lifecycle Management.
• 3+ years of hands-on Venafi administration and engineering experience.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• 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 in AI adoption with Identity focus, knowledge of Entra ID agentic Identity, authentication flows and patterns.
• Review and provide feedback on Identity and access management related security solutions proposed by stakeholders.
• In-depth knowledge 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, CA policies, Kerberos, LDAP, Identity Federations, etc.
• Experience in providing security solutions for Java microservices, React frontends, and mobile apps on Azure.
• Hands-on experience in JWT, session handling, Code signing, TLS/SSL, API Security, application registration and integration scenarios.
• Awareness of API Management, Firewalls, DLP, VPNs, DNS, Azure Defender, MCAS, Sentinel, WAFs, App Gateways, NSGs, App Proxy, Radius clusters, CDN.
• Understanding CIEM to manage entitlements and risky combinations.
• Threat modeling concepts and methodologies familiarization.
• OWASP security practices and cloud security basics.
• End-to-end workforce cybersecurity expertise across identity, MFA, SSO, Secrets management, RBAC, and Privileged Identity Management.

Skills

PKI & Cryptography

Venafi Expertise

TLS/SSL

X.509 Certificates

Public Key Infrastructure

HSM

Certificate Lifecycle Management

DevOps & Automation

Azure

Kubernetes

Windows IIS

Automation

Python

Azure Key Vault

Tools

Venafi TPP

Job description

The Judge Group is seeking an experienced PKI Engineer with Venafi expertise to lead identity and access security initiatives in a hybrid Chicago-based team. You will manage PKI, TLS certificates, and automation across Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud services, delivering scalable, zero-trust security solutions.

Five-plus years in PKI and three-plus years with Venafi are expected, along with strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.