Senior PKI Platform Engineer/PKI Infrastructure Specialist with EJBCA

Location: Europe - Hybrid Remote with Travel

Key skills: Senior PKI/Infrastructure Engineer, Design, enterprise-scale PKI environment, 3-tier PKI/Certificate Authority Design, PKI hierarchy, EJBCA, DigiCert, Venafi, Entrust, Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), key life cycle management, PKI services within Kubernetes environments, Kubernetes certificate management, Linux, Open source based infrastructure solutions, Certificate protocols, validation, crytographic keys, key management, enterprise security architecture, Linux-based infrastructure,infrastructure deployment and configuration, Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and operational tooling, troubleshoot complex PKI, infrastructure and platform issues, contribute to security, resilience, scalability and operational best practice

Our client is urgently searching for a Senior PKI Platform Engineer/PKI Infrastructure Specialist with EJBCA, DigiCert, Venafi, Entrust experience to work as a contractor on a critical project in Europe. They are looking for an experienced engineer for a team that works with enterprise PKI platforms, certificate management and modern infrastructure solutions. The consultant must be able to act as an engineer with the task of both operation, further development and automation of business-critical PKI services.The client is based in Europe and there is an option to work in a hybrid role as much of the work can be done off site but some work will need to be done on site.

A successful consultant will have strong knowledge in:

Senior PKI/Infrastructure Engineer - 5+ years of experience in PKI, certificate infrastructure, or similar enterprise-scale security platforms.

PKI & Certificates

Enterprise PKI platforms
PKI hierarchies and Certificate Authority design
Certificate Lifecycle Management
One or more PKI platforms such as EJBCA, DigiCert, Venafi, Entrust
Certificate protocols and validation.

Security Infrastructure
Cryptographic keys and key management
Enterprise security architecture

Platform Engineering
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Certificate Management
Linux
Open Source-based infrastructure solutions

Automation & Infrastructure as Code
For work use/Restricted
Terraform
Ansible
YAML
Bash
PowerShell

Advantage, but not requirement
It will be an advantage if the candidate has experience with:
GitOps principles
Container platforms and cloud-native operation
CI/CD pipelines related to PKI and certificate management

Key Responsibilities/Tasks

The consultant will work with, among other things:
Implementation and operation of on premise PKI System
Operation, maintenance and further development of PKI System hierarchy
Automation of Certificate Lifecycle Management
Operation of an enterprise PKI System in a container-based environment

This is an English speaking role. The location is in Europe, some European travel weekly maybe required.

Please send your CV ASAP for immediate and confidential interviews.