Venafi Architect

Job Title: Venafi Architect

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 months

Requested skills: Identity and Access Management Implementation, Design & Architecture; Cyber Security - Information Security; Public Key Infrastructure; Multifactor Authentication (MFA)

Essential Skills:

We are seeking an experienced (10+ years) PKI Venafi Architect to lead the design| implementation| governance| and automation of enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions. The ideal candidate will provide architecture leadership for machine identity management| certificate automation| cryptographic controls| and Venafi platform engineering across hybrid| cloud| and on-premises environments. This role will work closely with Security| Infrastructure| Cloud| DevOps| Identity & Access Management| and Application teams to build scalable and secure trust services.

Key Responsibilities:

PKI & Security Architecture: Design and maintain enterprise PKI architecture| including Root CA| Issuing CA| CRL| OCSP| HSM| and trust frameworks.

Develop certificate governance standards| policies| and cryptographic control frameworks.

Architect highly available and resilient PKI and CLM platforms.

Drive enterprise machine identity and certificate management strategy.

Venafi Platform Architecture

Design and administer Venafi Trust Protection Platform (TPP).

Define onboarding standards| workflows| policies| reporting| discovery jobs| and access models.

Architect integrations between Venafi and enterprise applications| cloud services| and security platforms.

Lead Venafi platform upgrades| enhancements| and optimization initiatives.

Certificate: Lifecycle Automation Architect automated certificate provisioning and renewal solutions.

Design automation frameworks using: Venafi APIs, vCert, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines

Drive adoption of certificate automation across enterprise application portfolios.