PKI Venafi Architect

Job Title: PKI Venafi Architect

Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: 6 months

Rate: $68/hr on W2

Requested skills: 
Identity and Access Management Implementation, Design & Architecture 7+ Years
Microsoft Identity And Access Management 7+ Years

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) 7+ Years

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.
• 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.