Senior PKI Security Engineer - Remote

Eliassen Group; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

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 support an enterprise PKI environment, manage certificate lifecycles, and drive PKI service improvements in a distributed team. Strong PKI, scripting, and ITIL experience are essential.

The role offers W2 employment with benefits and requires comfort working in ET time hours. You will collaborate across teams to ensure security and high availability in complex environments.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years IT experience.
• At least 2 years PKI experience.
• Experience with public Certificate Authorities (Digicert, Sectigo).
• Knowledge of Digicert CertCentral preferred.
• Understanding of ITIL principles preferred.
• Experience leading technical teams or projects preferred.
• AWS certification preferred.
• Experience with Python or scripting languages preferred.
• Enterprise-scale PKI operations and implementation experience preferred.
• 2+ years of UNIX experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
• Register and manage domains and validation processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex 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

Python scripting

UNIX

Cloud (AWS)

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 support an enterprise PKI environment, manage certificate lifecycles, and drive PKI service improvements in a distributed team. Strong PKI, scripting, and ITIL experience are essential.

The role offers W2 employment with benefits and requires comfort working in ET time hours. You will collaborate across teams to ensure security and high availability in complex environments.