IT Security Specialist III

Introduction

We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Engineer / Software Developer to help build a world-class, API-driven certificate automation platform. This role focuses on integrating TLS certificate lifecycle management into fully automated server and application builds—enabling secure, compliant deployments. You will design and deliver automation that connects CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and certificate management capabilities to eliminate manual certificate handling, reduce cyber risk, and dramatically improve deployment velocity across a large enterprise environment. This is a hands-on engineering and development role with high visibility and direct impact on platform scalability and security posture.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, software development, or automation.
• Strong expertise in PKI, TLS certificates, and certificate authority concepts.
• Solid understanding of cryptography (encryption, digital signatures, key management).
• Proven experience building automation tools or APIs using PowerShell and/or C#.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD pipeline integrations and/or terraforming.
• Prior work experience at client or in client's Industry.

Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with Venafi or similar enterprise certificate management platforms and their related automation capabilities.
• Experience authoring or maintaining Ansible (Tower/AAP/Open Source) playbooks.
• Familiarity with AWS and/or Azure, including serverless or cloud native services.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Design and develop secure APIs and automation services for end-to-end TLS certificate lifecycle management.
• Integrate certificate lifecycle management with CI/CD pipelines to automate certificate request, issuance, installation, and renewal.
• Embed certificate automation directly into full server and application build workflows.
• Build scalable, self-service solutions that reduce manual effort and security risk.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, and operations teams to drive adoption of secure by default designs.
• Implement production-grade automation solutions.
• Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders on enhancements, upgrades, and roadmap execution.
• Create clear documentation, runbooks, and technical design artifacts.

Company Benefits & Culture

• Build a platform, not just scripts—with real scale and enterprise impact.
• Own critical security automation used across server and application builds.
• Influence architecture, standards, and long-term automation strategy.
• Solve meaningful security and engineering problems with modern tooling.

For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex