Senior PKI & Certificate Security Engineer (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Senior PKI Security Engineer to support an enterprise PKI environment, handling certificates, encryption, and lifecycle management across large, distributed systems. The role emphasizes incident response and cross-team coordination in a remote setup.

Candidates should demonstrate strong PKI experience, knowledge of digital certificates, and the ability to drive improvements within a W2 framework with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Senior PKI security engineer with enterprise PKI experience.
• Experience with PKI, certificates, and encryption across large environments.
• Willing to work on a W2 basis; benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, life insurance.

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.
• Create, review, and implement changes in 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

Python scripting

AWS knowledge

ITIL awareness

Team leadership

UNIX experience

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering preferred

Tools

Digicert CertCentral

Public CAs: Digicert & Sectigo

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Senior PKI Security Engineer to support an enterprise PKI environment, handling certificates, encryption, and lifecycle management across large, distributed systems. The role emphasizes incident response and cross-team coordination in a remote setup.

Candidates should demonstrate strong PKI experience, knowledge of digital certificates, and the ability to drive improvements within a W2 framework with comprehensive benefits.