Senior PKI Security Engineer - Remote Contract

Eliassen Group; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior PKI Security Engineer to support an enterprise PKI environment remotely. You will manage certificate lifecycles, drive PKI service improvements, lead incident response, and coordinate cross-team initiatives in a distributed setting.

Requirements include 4+ years in IT with PKI experience, Digicert CertCentral familiarity, ITIL knowledge, and scripting with Python or similar. This is a W2 contract with competitive hourly pay and benefits.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of IT experience.
• 2+ years of PKI experience.
• Experience with public Certificate Authorities including Digicert and Sectigo.
• Knowledge of or hands-on experience with Digicert CertCentral preferred.
• ITIL principles preferred.
• Experience leading technical teams or projects preferred.
• AWS certification preferred.
• Experience with Python or scripting languages preferred.
• 3+ years of PKI experience preferred.
• Enterprise-scale PKI operations and implementation experience preferred.
• 2+ years of UNIX experience preferred.
• ET zone hours; remote or onsite hybrid if needed.
• Contract only; one-hour Zoom interview.

Responsibilities

• Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
• Register and manage domains and validation processes.
• Troubleshoot PKI and certificate issues.
• Monitor PKI and certificate incident queues across severities.
• Create, review, approve, and implement changes in PKI and certificate env.
• Lead disaster recovery exercises for PKI and certificates.
• Analyze, design, and implement PKI and security solutions.
• Identify challenges and develop improvements.
• Analyze data trends to drive root cause analysis.
• Perform capacity planning and maintenance for high availability.
• Apply DevOps principles to workflows and automation.
• Lead or contribute to PKI projects and communicate business needs.
• Represent Crypto Services on global incident calls.

Skills

PKI expertise

Certificate management

Scripting (Python)

ITIL knowledge

Unix experience

AWS certification

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering preferred

Tools

Digicert CertCentral

Sectigo

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior PKI Security Engineer to support an enterprise PKI environment remotely. You will manage certificate lifecycles, drive PKI service improvements, lead incident response, and coordinate cross-team initiatives in a distributed setting.

Requirements include 4+ years in IT with PKI experience, Digicert CertCentral familiarity, ITIL knowledge, and scripting with Python or similar. This is a W2 contract with competitive hourly pay and benefits.