Position Title: Senior PKI / SSL Certificates Engineer
Location: 100% Remote
Position Status: 6 month contract
Compensation: Extremely competitive
Shift: Monday - Friday (8am to 5pm)
 
Specific Duties:

• Consult with other members of business unit and technical users to identify PKI requirements and develop requirements documentation 
• Contribute to the technical direction on all areas of PKI architecture, strategies, automation and enforce governance & standards 
• Provide guidance to key stakeholders on PKI life cycle, processes and procedures 
• Process fulfillment requests (Service requests/Catalog tasks)
• Manages SSL/TLS Certificates associated with the Certificate Authority (CA)
• Monitor Public (External) and Managed PKI (Private/Internal) CA SSL/TLS Certificates for upcoming expiration dates
• Monitor all expiry notifications to ensure no issues result from Certificate expiration
• Revoke SSL Certificates which are no longer being used in both Managed PKI and Public CA portals
• Interact directly with vendor/s and IT customers for troubleshooting of certificate and key related issues
• Update and maintain documentation and process guides for requesting and distributing certificates
• Provide technical guidance moving some of the manual certificate provisioning process to a more automated method possible using other tools such as Venafi, including some scripting experience
• Assist in certificate coordination to ensure successful implementation
• Ability to provide tool and service training

Specific Qualifications:

• Knowledge of X.509 and general certificate management processes 
• Experience with public key infrastructure (PKI) and experience with certificate life cycle management, such as Venafi
• Experience with Public Certificate Authority providers 
• Certification and experience in IT operational standards such as ITIL v3 preferred.
• Ability to gather and convey information to stakeholders
• Strong analytical, technical writing and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence change across a matrix organization and collaborate with business and technology teams to deliver solutions
• 10+ years' experience working in Information Technology
• 3+ years' experience working in Security
• Understands how the IT group operates and how his/her role meets customer needs and creates value
• Candidate must have general knowledge regarding cryptographic methodologies and processes within IT organizations
• General understanding of cryptographic keys, symmetric and asymmetric keys, cryptographic key algorithms and cipher blocks
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and assist customers with a sense of urgency
• Understand of ITIL methodology