Remote PKI Security Engineer - Lead Certificate Ops

Eliassen Group; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior PKI Security Engineer for a remote, contract role. You will support an enterprise PKI environment, manage certificate lifecycles, and drive PKI service improvements in a distributed setting.

This contract requires a W2 arrangement with benefits including medical, dental, and vision, 401k matching, and life insurance. The candidate should have 4+ years IT experience, 2+ years PKI expertise, and familiarity with major CAs like Digicert and Sectigo.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years IT experience.
• 2+ years PKI experience.
• Experience with public CAs (Digicert, Sectigo).
• Digicert CertCentral knowledge preferred.
• ITIL knowledge preferred.
• Lead technical teams or projects preferred.
• Python or scripting experience preferred.
• 3+ years PKI experience.
• Enterprise-scale PKI operations experience preferred.
• UNIX experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
• Register and manage domains and validation processes.
• Troubleshoot PKI and certificate issues.
• Monitor PKI incident queues and resolve issues.
• Implement changes in PKI environment.
• Lead disaster recovery exercises for PKI and certificates.
• Analyze and implement PKI, certificate, and security solutions.
• Develop improvements from data trends.
• Perform capacity planning and performance monitoring.
• Apply DevOps to daily workflows and automation.
• Lead or contribute to PKI projects.
• Translate business needs into technology solutions.
• Represent Crypto Services on incident calls.

Skills

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

AWS certification

Python

ITIL

Leadership

UNIX

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Digicert CertCentral

Digicert and Sectigo CAs

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior PKI Security Engineer for a remote, contract role. You will support an enterprise PKI environment, manage certificate lifecycles, and drive PKI service improvements in a distributed setting.

This contract requires a W2 arrangement with benefits including medical, dental, and vision, 401k matching, and life insurance. The candidate should have 4+ years IT experience, 2+ years PKI expertise, and familiarity with major CAs like Digicert and Sectigo.