PKI Engineer - Venafi Expertise

Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Job Description

We are seeking a PKI Engineer with strong Venafi expertise to manage enterprise PKI and certificate lifecycle operations.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of PKI / Certificate Management
• 3+ years hands-on Venafi TLS Protect / TPP
• Strong knowledge of SSL/TLS, X.509, RSA, ECC
• Experience with certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, and discovery
• Microsoft AD CS / Certificate Authorities
• Root CA, Intermediate CA, CRL, and OCSP
• Certificate troubleshooting and production support
• Experience with Venafi policies, workflows, and automation
• Scripting with PowerShell/Python and REST APIs preferred
• Experience with enterprise applications, servers, load balancers, and cloud environments preferred

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Venafi PKI environments.
• Manage end-to-end certificate lifecycle.
• Configure CA integrations, policies, workflows, and automation.
• Monitor certificate expiration and resolve certificate issues.
• Support PKI integrations across infrastructure, applications, cloud, and DevOps environments.