Senior PKI Security Engineer - Remote Certificate Lifecycle

Eliassen Group; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior PKI Security Engineer for a remote role in the United States. You will manage PKI operations, certificates, and related security projects across a large enterprise, coordinating with cross-team stakeholders.

The position requires expert PKI knowledge, incident response leadership, and DevOps-oriented automation. The role is contract-based, with a comprehensive benefits package for W-2 consultants.

Qualifications

• 4+ years IT experience
• 2+ years PKI experience
• Experience with public CAs (DigiCert, Sectigo)
• Digicert CertCentral familiarity preferred
• ITIL understanding preferred

Responsibilities

• Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
• Register and manage domains and validation processes.
• Troubleshoot high-severity PKI and certificate issues.
• Monitor PKI incident queues and coordinate resolutions across teams.
• Lead changes in PKI and certificate environments and disaster recovery exercises.
• Apply DevOps practices to PKI workflows and automation.

Skills

PKI expertise

Incident response

Scripting (Python)

UNIX experience

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Digicert CertCentral

Sectigo

AWS

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior PKI Security Engineer for a remote role in the United States. You will manage PKI operations, certificates, and related security projects across a large enterprise, coordinating with cross-team stakeholders.

The position requires expert PKI knowledge, incident response leadership, and DevOps-oriented automation. The role is contract-based, with a comprehensive benefits package for W-2 consultants.