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PKI Engineer with Venafi Expertise

Purple Drive Technologies LLCChicago, IL🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 24, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid PKI Engineer role at Purple Drive Technologies offers a fantastic opportunity to deepen your expertise in Venafi and certificate lifecycle management, contributing to critical security initiatives within a reputable company. You'll thrive here if you're a proactive problem-solver eager to lead application onboarding and drive automation, making a significant impact on enterprise security.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL, United States
Posted
5 days ago

Job Description

Role Descriptions: Certificate Lifecycle Management Administer and support enterprise Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) services.

Manage the complete certificate lifecycle including:

o Discovery
o Request
o Issuance
o RenewaloRevocation
o Deployment Monitoring
o Retirement Ensure certificates remain compliant with enterprise standards and industry requirements. Support certificate inventory management and visibility initiatives. Assist with remediation of expiring| unmanaged| self-signed| and non-compliant certificates Venafi Platform Administration Administer and maintain the Venafi platform and supporting infrastructure. Configure and manage: policies Workflows Certificate Authorities Integration so Discovery jobs Notification so Reporting Access controls Support platform upgrades| maintenance activities| and technology refresh initiatives. Collaborate with Venafi support and vendors to resolve technical issues and implement enhancements. Application Onboarding & Solution Engineering Lead application onboarding activities into the Certificate Lifecycle Management platform. Assess application certificate requirements and define onboarding approaches. Design and implement automation patterns suitable for application needs. Partner with application teams to understand deployment architectures| certificate formats| trust requirements| and operational processes. Support onboarding across:


oWindowsoLinuxoAzureoKubernetesoWebLogicoIISoF5oKafkaoSolaceoPingoCloud-native platforms Provide technical consultation and solution recommendations to application teams. Certificate Automation Design| implement| and support certificate lifecycle automation solutions. Develop automation patterns using: avanafil Native Driver so Venafi API so vCert Utilitieso CI/CD Pipelines GitHub ActionsoAzure DevOpso PowerShello Pythono Ansible Automate certificate renewal| provisioning| deployment validation| and application restart activities.Drive reduction of manual certificate deployment processes and operational risk.Create reusable automation patterns and onboarding frameworks for adoption across the enterprise.PKI Operations & Resiliency Support internal PKI infrastructure and certificate authority services.Participate in: oCertificate Authority operationsoCRL publication activities Backup and recovery testingoDisaster Recovery exercisesoPlatform resiliency improvementsMonitor certificate ecosystem health and availability.Support root and intermediate certificate management activities.Participate in major incident response and troubleshooting efforts Security & GovernanceSupport certificate governance and compliance initiatives.Maintain certificate ownership| metadata| and accountability records.Ensure adherence to security standards for: oTLS/SSLoCertificate issuanceoCryptographic key managementoCertificate Authority controls


Essential Skills:
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior PKI & Venafi Engineer to support and enhance the organizations Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) capabilities. This role will be responsible for application onboarding| certificate lifecycle automation| PKI operations| certificate governance| platform resiliency| and technical consultation across hybrid and cloud environments.The successful candidate will serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise certificates| PKI architecture| Venafi Trust Protection Platform| certificate automation patterns| and operational support. The engineer will work closely with application teams| infrastructure teams| cloud teams| security architects| and vendors to ensure certificates are deployed| monitored| renewed| and governed securely throughout their lifecycle. Responsibilities align closely to automation| onboarding| renewal| discovery| governance| and resiliency objectives documented within the CLM program.

Skills: Digital : Microsoft Azure~Public Key Infrastructure
Experience Required: 10 & Above


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