PKI Engineer

Title

PKI Engineer

Location

Fort Worth, TX

Duration

6 months

Job Description

• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) & Encryption Engineer
• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices
• Solves technical problems and builds components/libraries with far-ranging impact
• Delivers high quality work and coaches more junior engineers on technical craftsmanship
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify systemic problems and defines and leads execution of action items to address
• Designs thoughtfully integrated systems that model organizational best practices, allowing disparate teams across product domains to deliver value with speed, scale, and reliability
• Oversees the management of technical debt in existing systems and drives opportunities to eliminate within ongoing implementations
• Consistently anticipates scaling, latency, and durability challenges and guides teams in implementation of mitigating strategies
• Partners with the security organization to incorporate security conscious practices early in the lifecycle of new systems
• Thoughtfully evaluates technical risks and guides toward practical prevention strategies
• Consistently reflects on squad delivery practices throughout their span of of influence, recommends improvements to leadership and drives their implementation
• Maintains a focus on removing the duplication of effort across teams and proactively identifies opportunities for reuse within their span of influence
• Thoughtfully measures and assesses team and identifies areas of development for individuals
• Explores emerging technologies, leads development of prototypes with little or no guidance and incorporates into architectural solutions where appropriate

Top Requirements

• PKI and X.509 certificate expertise (TLS/SSL, CA, issuance, renewal, revocation)
• Enterprise certificate lifecycle management experience (Keyfactor, Venafi, DigiCert, Sectigo, ADCS, etc.)
• Automation and scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, APIs)
• 3-5 years related experience

Nice to have

• Keyfactor Command, EJBCA, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, ACME, Azure/AWS, F5, NGINX, IIS, DevOps/IaC experience.