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PKI & Cloud Security Engineer

SysMind, LLCCleveland, OH🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 16, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to deepen your expertise in PKI and cloud security, driving critical automation initiatives within a reputable company. You'll thrive here if you have strong AppViewX CLM, PKI, and scripting skills, eager to enhance enterprise-wide certificate management. Embrace this chance to grow your career and make a significant impact on robust security infrastructure.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Cleveland, OH, United States
Posted
Yesterday
AnsibleApacheAzureGitHub ActionsKafkaKubernetesPKIPowerShellPythonREST

Job Description

Location: Cleveland, OH
Duration: 6 Months
Experience: 6–8 Years

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AppViewX CLM & PKI Engineer to manage certificate lifecycle operations, enterprise PKI infrastructure, and certificate automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AppViewX Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), TLS/SSL certificates, certificate authorities, and automation using PowerShell, Python, and REST APIs.

The candidate will collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to improve certificate governance, automate certificate management processes, and maintain secure, reliable enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Administer and support the AppViewX CLM platform.

  • Manage certificate discovery, issuance, renewal, revocation, deployment, monitoring, and retirement.

  • Maintain certificate inventories and remediate expired, unmanaged, or non-compliant certificates.

  • Configure AppViewX workflows, policies, certificate authority integrations, notifications, reporting, and access controls.

  • Lead application onboarding and certificate automation initiatives.

  • Integrate certificate management solutions across Windows, Linux, Azure, Kubernetes, IIS, Apache, WebLogic, F5, Kafka, and Solace.

  • Develop automation using AppViewX APIs, REST APIs, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.

  • Support PKI infrastructure, including Certificate Authorities (CA), Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL), OCSP, and key management services.

  • Provide Level 2 and Level 3 support for certificate lifecycle, PKI, and TLS/SSL-related incidents.

  • Troubleshoot certificate deployment, renewal, trust chain, and application integration issues.

  • Participate in platform upgrades, resiliency testing, disaster recovery exercises, and major incident resolution.

  • Support audits, compliance reviews, risk remediation, and security governance initiatives.

  • Maintain operational runbooks, procedures, architecture documentation, and onboarding guides.

  • Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve certificate management security.

Primary Skills 

  • AppViewX Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM)

  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

  • TLS/SSL Certificate Management

  • Certificate Lifecycle Automation

  • Certificate Authority (CA) Integration

  • Certificate Discovery, Issuance, Renewal, and Revocation

  • PowerShell Scripting

  • Python Automation

  • REST APIs and AppViewX APIs

  • Azure and Kubernetes

  • PKI Troubleshooting and Operational Support

Secondary Skills 

  • Ansible Automation

  • GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

  • Windows and Linux Administration

  • IIS, Apache, and WebLogic

  • F5 Load Balancers

  • Kafka and Solace

  • CRL and OCSP

  • Key Management Services

  • Certificate Monitoring and Compliance Reporting

  • Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Testing

  • Security Governance and Audit Support

  • Runbook and Technical Documentation

Required Qualifications

  • 6–8 years of relevant experience in certificate management, PKI, cloud security, or security operations.

  • Hands-on experience administering AppViewX CLM or comparable enterprise certificate lifecycle platforms.

  • Strong understanding of PKI architecture, TLS/SSL certificates, certificate authorities, and trust chains.

  • Experience automating certificate operations using PowerShell, Python, and APIs.

  • Knowledge of certificate integrations across cloud, server, container, and enterprise application environments.

  • Experience troubleshooting certificate-related production issues and supporting security compliance.

  • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.


All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. 
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by applicable law. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process may request assistance.
Employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of job-related pre-employment screening, which may include background and reference checks and, where permitted by applicable law and applicable to the position, drug testing. All such screening will be conducted in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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