Sr. Security Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Sr. Security Engineer. This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA. Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID

26-34363

Pay Range

$51-$61/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities

• Works with the technical team to recover data after a security breach.
• Configures and installs firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
• Develops automation scripts to handle and track incidents.
• Investigates intrusion incidents, conducts forensic investigations and mounts incident responses.
• Delivers technical reports and formal papers on test findings.
• Installs firewalls, data encryption, and other security measures.
• Maintains access by providing information, resources, and technical support.
• Ensures authorized access by investigating improper access; revoking access; reporting violations; monitoring information requests by new programming; recommending improvements.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Accomplishes information systems and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Builds, deploys, and tracks security measurements for computer systems and networks.
• Mitigates security vulnerabilities by implementing applicable solutions and tools.
• Performs vulnerability testing, risk analyses, and security assessments.
• Collaborates with colleagues on authentication, authorization, and encryption solutions.
• Tests security solutions using industry standard analysis criteria.
• Responds to information security issues during each stage of a project’s lifecycle.
• Performs risk assessments and testing of data processing systems.
• Establishes system controls by developing framework for controls and levels of access; recommending improvements
• Establishes computer and terminal physical security by developing standards, policies, and procedures; coordinates with facilities security; recommends improvements.
• Safeguards computer files by performing regular backups; developing procedures for source code management and disaster preparedness; recommends improvements.
• Determines the sensitivity of the data in order to recommend the appropriate security needs.
• Develops proposals for, and consider cost effective equipment options to satisfy security needs.
• Communicates with the technical team, management team and users companywide if data security is breached.
• Designs infrastructure to alert the technical team of detected vulnerabilities.
• Evaluates new technologies and processes that enhance security capabilities.
• Supervises changes in software, hardware, facilities, telecommunications and user needs.
• Defines, implements, and maintains corporate security policies.
• Analyzes and advises on new security technologies and program conformance.
• Creates, tests, and implements network disaster recovery plans.
• Recommends security enhancements and purchases.
• Trains staff on network and information security procedures.
• Develops security awareness by providing orientation, educational programs, and on-going communication.
• Recommends modifications in legal, technical and regulatory areas that affect IT security.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience

• Ensure availability, resiliency, and patching of PKI infrastructure
• Support certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, and lifecycle management
• Manage large-scale certificate environments across applications and infrastructure
• Ensure timely renewal and replacement of certificates
• Support trust store management and certificate chain integrity
• Build and implement automation for certificate lifecycle management
• Integrate PKI services with enterprise platforms (CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, applications)
• Deploy and operationalize tools such as connectors and automation pipelines
• Enforce security policies related to certificate usage and cryptography
• Define and maintain standards for certificate issuance, validity, and usage
• Support compliance with regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, CMMC, PCI, TSA directives)
• Partner with application and infrastructure teams to enable certificate automation
• Provide guidance and supporting tooling while ensuring clear ownership boundaries
• Assist teams with onboarding to PKI services and automation
• Identify and remediate risks related to certificate expiration, misconfiguration, or trust failures
• Support incident response involving certificate or encryption issues
• Improve visibility and reporting for certificate health and compliance
• Support adoption of new cryptographic standards (e.g., post-quantum cryptography)
• Assist in modernization of PKI architecture and tooling
• Evaluate new solutions for scalability and resilience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3–7+ years in PKI, cybersecurity engineering, or infrastructure security
• Hands-on experience with certificate lifecycle management
• Experience with PKI tools/platforms (e.g., Venafi, DigiCert, Microsoft CA, AWS ACM)
• Understanding of TLS/SSL, cryptographic principles, and key management
• HSMs and key custody operations
• PKI automation (APIs, pipelines, scripting)
• Cloud certificate services (AWS, Azure)
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (NIST, PCI-DSS, CMMC)
• Experience scaling PKI in large enterprise environments
• Familiarity with trust store management across distributed systems

Our client is a leading Airlines organization and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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