Senior PKI & Crypto Architect (Hybrid)

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Chandler, Northern (AZ, KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Financial Services Company in Chandler, AZ; Charlotte, NC; or Irving, TX (Hybrid) seeks a Senior PKI & Cryptography Engineer for a 12-month contract. You will consult on complex initiatives, review large-scale software engineering challenges, and collaborate with client teams to validate PKI infrastructures and cryptographic asset management.

The role demands deep PKI and cryptography knowledge, experience with HSMs, key management, and post-quantum readiness planning, with the ability to drive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work, consulting, training, military, or education.

Responsibilities

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex situations meeting policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Strategically collaborate with client personnel.
• Evaluate technical capabilities of vendors responding to cryptographic discovery and posture management RFP.
• Participate in solution scoring and technical due diligence activities.
• Design, build, and execute proof-of-concept and pilot environments for shortlisted vendors.
• Validate cryptographic discovery coverage across certificates, keys, protocols, PKI infrastructure, and related assets.
• Test integrations with enterprise data sources to validate inventory and workflows.
• Assess solution scalability, coverage, and implementation requirements.
• Produce technical findings, architecture recommendations, and implementation plans for leadership review.
• Support transition from evaluation to deployment planning and production onboarding.

Skills

Software Engineering

PKI

Cryptography

Certificate management

Tools

HSMs

Key management

Job description

Financial Services Company in Chandler, AZ; Charlotte, NC; or Irving, TX (Hybrid) seeks a Senior PKI & Cryptography Engineer for a 12-month contract. You will consult on complex initiatives, review large-scale software engineering challenges, and collaborate with client teams to validate PKI infrastructures and cryptographic asset management.

The role demands deep PKI and cryptography knowledge, experience with HSMs, key management, and post-quantum readiness planning, with the ability to drive