Senior Certificate Lifecycle Management/PKI Automation Engineer

Apex Systems; New Albany (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with match

ESPP

HSA

EAP

Certification discounts

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking a Senior Certificate Lifecycle Management/PKI Automation Engineer in New Albany, Ohio. The role focuses on designing and implementing an enterprise-grade certificate lifecycle management program with secure automation for discovery, renewal, and distribution across a heterogeneous environment.

You will lead last-mile certificate deployment, ensure seamless activation and validation on endpoints, and collaborate with infrastructure and app teams to drive automation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related engineering field is preferred.
• Seven to ten years of systems engineering experience is required, including at least five years dedicated to public key infrastructure, certificate authority integrations, and certificate lifecycle management platforms.
• 7+ years of infrastructure/security engineering experience, 5+ years with PKI, TLS, or certificate management platforms; strong scripting and automation tooling with PowerShell, Python, or Shell; solid knowledge of web/app servers (IIS, NGINX, Apache) and Kubernetes; deep understanding of X.509 formats, chains, and trust stores.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on architecture, configuration, testing, and implementation of PKI Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Gateway components.
• Analyze deployment patterns to identify where secure traffic terminates and establish standardized certificate delivery workflows.
• Automate delivery and installation of certificates, private keys, and intermediate chains using APIs, push commands, and configuration management tools.
• Design safe service-reload patterns to activate updated certificates while maintaining continuous application availability.
• Validate certificate replacement, verify chain integrity and handshake post-deployment.
• Establish rollback mechanisms and automated failure-handling procedures to mitigate risk during rotation cycles.
• Map certificate dependencies via network endpoint investigations and identify termination technologies.
• Drive technical discussions and collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to foster adoption of automation practices.

Skills

PKI

Certificate Lifecycle Management

Automation tooling

APIs

Infrastructure as Code

PowerShell

Python

Shell

IIS

NGINX

Apache

Kubernetes

X.509 certificates

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or information security

Tools

F5 BIG-IP

Job description

Job Description: Senior Certificate Lifecycle Management/PKI Automation Engineer

Job#: 3056821

Location: New Albany, Ohio (Hybrid)

Role Overview

An experienced security systems PKI engineer is required to drive the design and implementation of an enterprise-grade certificate lifecycle management program. This position focuses on establishing repeatable, secure automation for certificate discovery, renewal, and distribution across a complex, heterogeneous technology environment. The successful candidate must demonstrate hands-on expertise in last-mile certificate deployment, ensuring seamless installation, service activation, and validation on the endpoints actually terminating secure traffic.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the architecture, configuration, testing, and implementation of PKI Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Gateway components.
• Analyze enterprise deployment patterns to identify where secure traffic terminates and establish standardized certificate delivery workflows.
• Automate the delivery and installation of certificates, private keys, and intermediate chains to target destinations using APIs, push commands, and configuration management tools.
• Design and execute safe service-reload patterns to activate updated certificates while maintaining continuous application availability.
• Validate successful certificate replacement, verifying chain integrity and proper secure socket negotiation post-deployment.
• Establish robust rollback mechanisms and automated failure-handling procedures to mitigate operational risk during rotation cycles.
• Conduct network endpoint investigations to map certificate dependencies and identify target termination technologies.
• Drive technical discussions and collaborate closely with internal infrastructure and application teams to foster adoption of automation practices.

Required Qualifications

Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related engineering field is preferred.

Experience: Seven to ten years of systems engineering experience is required, including at least five years dedicated to public key infrastructure, certificate authority integrations, and certificate lifecycle management platforms.

Technical Skills: 7+ years of infrastructure/security engineering experience, 5+ years working with PKI, certificates, TLS, or certificate management platform Strong proficiency in F5 BIG-IP certificate rotation and secure profile management is required. Practical experience with automation tooling, APIs, infrastructure-as-code concepts, and scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Shell is required. Solid understanding of web and application server infrastructure, including Microsoft IIS, NGINX, Apache, and container platforms like Kubernetes, is required. Comprehensive knowledge of X.509 certificate formats, certificate chains, trust stores, and handshake analysis is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct production experience implementing automated PKI Certificate Lifecycle Management and Gateway configurations.
• Proven track record of migrating enterprise organizations from manual processes to automated certificate lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with retail or consumer services technology environments experiencing rapid rotation cycles.

Benefits Overview

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.