Senior PKI & Certificate Security Engineer (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Dover (DE); 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 operate within an enterprise PKI environment, managing certificates, validating domains, and guiding incident response in a geographically dispersed team.

The role emphasizes PKI expertise, encryption, and security solution design. You will collaborate across teams, apply DevOps practices, and drive improvements in PKI services while supporting disaster recovery and capacity planning in a W2 remote

Qualifications

• 4+ years of IT experience.
• 2+ years PKI experience.
• Experience with PKI lifecycle and certificate management.
• Knowledge of CA operations and validation processes.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
• Register and manage domains and validation workflows.
• Troubleshoot PKI and certificate issues across environments.
• Lead disaster recovery exercises for PKI and certificates.
• Translate business needs into scalable security solutions.

Skills

PKI

Certificate lifecycle

Incident response

DevOps

Python

UNIX

AWS

ITIL

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Digicert CertCentral

Public Certificate Authorities (Digicert, Sectigo)

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior PKI Security Engineer for a remote, contract role. You will operate within an enterprise PKI environment, managing certificates, validating domains, and guiding incident response in a geographically dispersed team.

The role emphasizes PKI expertise, encryption, and security solution design. You will collaborate across teams, apply DevOps practices, and drive improvements in PKI services while supporting disaster recovery and capacity planning in a W2 remote