Remote Senior PKI Security Engineer - Contract

Eliassen Group; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Senior PKI Security Engineer to provide operational, engineering, and project support for an enterprise PKI environment. This remote contract role requires expert PKI, certificates, and encryption across large environments.

You will manage certificate lifecycles, drive PKI service improvements, lead incident response, and coordinate cross-team initiatives in a geographically dispersed setting. W2 with benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Senior PKI Security Engineer to provide operational, engineering, and project support for an enterprise PKI environment.
• Expert-level experience with PKI, certificates, and encryption across large and complex environments.
• Must be willing to work on a W2 basis.
• Rate: $60.00 to $68.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
• Register and manage domains and associated validation processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex or high-severity PKI and certificate issues.
• Monitor PKI and certificate incident queues and resolve issues across severities.
• Create, review, approve, and implement changes in the PKI and certificate environment.
• Lead disaster recovery exercises for PKI and certificates.
• Analyze, design, and implement PKI, certificate, and security solutions.
• Identify technical and operational challenges and develop improvements.
• Analyze data trends to drive root cause analysis and service enhancements.
• Perform capacity planning, performance monitoring, and maintenance for high availability.
• Apply DevOps principles to daily workflows and automation efforts.
• Lead or contribute to projects involving PKI, certificates, and security.
• Translate business needs into workable technology solutions.
• Represent Crypto Services on global incident management calls and engage with stakeholders.
• Communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

PKI expertise

Certificate management

Incident response

DevOps practices

Stakeholder comms

Troubleshooting

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree (CS/IS/Engineering)

Tools

Digicert CertCentral

Public Certificate Authorities

UNIX

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Senior PKI Security Engineer to provide operational, engineering, and project support for an enterprise PKI environment. This remote contract role requires expert PKI, certificates, and encryption across large environments.

You will manage certificate lifecycles, drive PKI service improvements, lead incident response, and coordinate cross-team initiatives in a geographically dispersed setting. W2 with benefits offered.