PKI Security Engineer
Anywhere
Type: Contract
Category: Security
Industry: Financial Services
Workplace Type: Remote
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -102026-109231
Date Posted: 10/27/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/13RNUa
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Our client seeks a Senior PKI Security Engineer to provide operational, engineering, and project support for an enterprise PKI environment. The role requires expert-level experience with PKI, certificates, and encryption across large and complex environments. You will manage certificate lifecycle processes, drive analysis and improvement of PKI services, lead incident response activities, and coordinate cross-team initiatives in a virtual, geographically dispersed setting.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $60.00 to $68.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
- Register and manage domains and associated validation processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex or high-severity PKI and certificate issues.
- Monitor PKI and certificate incident queues and resolve issues across severities.
- Create, review, approve, and implement changes in the PKI and certificate environment.
- Lead disaster recovery exercises for PKI and certificates.
- Analyze, design, and implement PKI, certificate, and security solutions.
- Identify technical and operational challenges and develop improvements.
- Analyze data trends to drive root cause analysis and service enhancements.
- Perform capacity planning, performance monitoring, and maintenance for high availability.
- Apply DevOps principles to daily workflows and automation efforts.
- Lead or contribute to projects involving PKI, certificates, and security.
- Translate business needs into workable technology solutions.
- Represent Crypto Services on global incident management calls and engage with stakeholders.
- Communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience Requirements:
- At least 4 years of Information Technology experience.
- At least 2 years of experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
- Experience with public Certificate Authorities, including Digicert and Sectigo.
- Knowledge of or hands-on experience with Digicert CertCentral preferred.
- Understanding of ITIL principles preferred.
- Experience leading technical teams or projects preferred.
- AWS certification preferred.
- Experience with Python or other scripting languages preferred.
- 3+ years of PKI experience preferred.
- Enterprise-scale PKI operations and implementation experience preferred.
- 2+ years of UNIX experience preferred.
- Ability to work ET zone hours. Remote or onsite hybrid at a people center if needed.
- Contract only. One-hour Zoom video interview.
Education Requirements:
- High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification required.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering preferred.
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