Information Technology_USA - USA_Engineer

Real Soft•Jacksonville, FL

9d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior PKI & Venafi Engineer to support and enhance the organizations Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) capabilities. This role will be responsible for application onboarding, certificate lifecycle automation, PKI operations, certificate governance, platform resiliency, and technical consultation across hybrid and cloud environments. The successful candidate will serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise certificates, PKI architecture, Venafi Trust Protection Platform, certificate automation patterns, and operational support. The engineer will work closely with application teams, infrastructure teams, cloud teams, security architects, and vendors to ensure certificates are deployed, monitored, renewed, and governed securely throughout their lifecycle. Responsibilities align closely to automation, onboarding, renewal, discovery, governance, and resiliency objectives documented within the CLM program.

Requirements

Public Key Infrastructure
Experience Required: 10 & Above
Digital : Microsoft Azure

Nice To Haves

Venafi Expertise

Responsibilities

Administer and support enterprise Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) services.
Manage the complete certificate lifecycle including: Discovery, Request, Issuance, Renewal, Revocation, Deployment, Monitoring, Retirement.
Ensure certificates remain compliant with enterprise standards and industry requirements.
Support certificate inventory management and visibility initiatives.
Assist with remediation of expiring, unmanaged, self-signed, and non-compliant certificates.
Administer and maintain the Venafi platform and supporting infrastructure.
Configure and manage: Policies, Workflows, Certificate Authorities, Integrations, Discovery jobs, Notifications, Reporting, Access controls.
Support platform upgrades, maintenance activities, and technology refresh initiatives.
Collaborate with Venafi support and vendors to resolve technical issues and implement enhancements.
Lead application onboarding activities into the Certificate Lifecycle Management platform.
Assess application certificate requirements and define onboarding approaches.
Design and implement automation patterns suitable for application needs.
Partner with application teams to understand deployment architectures, certificate formats, trust requirements, and operational processes.
Support onboarding across: Windows, Linux, Azure, Kubernetes, WebLogic, IIS, F5, Kafka, Solace, Ping, Cloud-native platforms.
Provide technical consultation and solution recommendations to application teams.
Design, implement, and support certificate lifecycle automation solutions.
Develop automation patterns using: Venafi Native Drivers, Venafi APIs, Cert Utilities, CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Python, Ansible.
Automate certificate renewal, provisioning, deployment validation, and application restart activities.
Drive reduction of manual certificate deployment processes and operational risk.
Create reusable automation patterns and onboarding frameworks for adoption across the enterprise.
Support internal PKI infrastructure and certificate authority services.
Participate in: Certificate Authority operations, CRL publication activities, Backup and recovery testing, Disaster Recovery exercises, Platform resiliency improvements.
Monitor certificate ecosystem health and availability.
Support root and intermediate certificate management activities.
Participate in major incident response and troubleshooting efforts.
Support certificate governance and compliance initiatives.
Maintain certificate ownership, metadata, and accountability records.
Ensure adherence to security standards for: TLS/SSL, Certificate issuance, Cryptographic key management, Certificate Authority controls.