PKI Engineer with Venafi Expertise

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• PKI & Cryptography
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  • X.509 Certificates
  • TLS/SSL
  • Certificate Authorities (CA)
  • Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
  • OCSP
  • Key Management
  • Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
  • Code Signing Certificates
  • Root and Intermediate CA Management
• Venafi Expertise
  • Venafi Trust Protection Platform (TPP)
  • Venafi SaaS
  • Certificate Discovery
  • Certificate Automation
  • Venafi APIs
  • Adaptable Apps
  • Native Drivers
  • Reporting and Governance
  • Certificate Lifecycle Workflows
• Platforms & Integrations
  • Windows IIS
  • Linux/Unix
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Azure Key Vault
  • Kubernetes
  • F5 Load Balancers
  • Apache
  • Tomcat
  • WebLogic
  • Kafka
  • Solace
  • Ping Federate
  • ServiceNow Integrations
• DevOps & Automation
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure DevOps
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • REST APIs
  • Ansible
  • Infrastructure Automation
• Security Domains
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Identity & Access Management
  • Secrets Management
  • Zero Trust Principles
  • Cloud Security
  • Security Monitoring

• Strong understanding of PKI architecture and certificate lifecycle processes.
• Experience implementing certificate automation patterns and DevSecOps integrations.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale certificate environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead Identity centric Workforce Security team to develop authentication and access management solutions
• Drive the development of identity solutions, access patterns, modern security protocols, practicing Zero trust, least privileged, defense in depth principles
• Good understanding of AI concepts, Patterns and impact on identity and access management domain
• Participate and engage in AI adoption with Identity focus, knowledge and understanding of Entra ID agentic Identity, authentication flows and Patterns
• Review and provide feedback on Identity and access management related security solutions proposed by stakeholders and can provide consultation to the partners and IT Management
• In-depth knowledge and experience on Entra ID, EPM, Sentinel, Azure, AWS Security
• Knowledge on Okta, PingFederate, Entitlement management solutions
• Strong knowledge on Identities management on Azure AD with OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SSO, MFA, Conditional access policies, MFA, Kerberos, LDAP, Identity Federations etc.
• Experience in providing security solutions for Java based Micro services, React based frontends and Android/iOS based mobile applications on the Azure
• Hands-of experience in JWT, session handling, Code signing, Certificate authentication, TLS/SSL, API Security, Application registration, application integration scenarios etc.
• Awareness of API Management, Firewalls, DLP, VPNs, DNS, Azure Defender, MCAS, Sentinel, WAFs, Application Gateways, NSGs, App Proxy, Radius clusters, CDN etc.
• Good understanding of Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management solution (CIEM) to ensure smooth remediation of toxic combinations, high risk entitlements etc.
• Understanding and application of threat modeling concepts and methodologies
• Understanding of Applications security, OWASP standards, security best practices, browser compatibilities/storages/cookies
• Acts as Workforce cybersecurity expert to in solutions spanning end user computing, proxy solutions, MFA, SSO, conditional accesses, Passwordless, Yubikey, bio-metric solutions, identity and governance scenarios, Secrets Management, automation, role based access control, Privileged identity management, Just in time accesses etc.
• Participates in solutions to support- token handling, OIDC/ OAuth flows, authorization patterns, identity federation, cloud architectures, cryptography, cloud native services, cloud security etc.
• Deeper understanding on Cloud Security areas such as Policies, RBAC, activities, identities, privileged access management etc.
• Ability to support operations in troubleshooting complex identity scenarios with hands-on experience on Sentinel/KQL/Audit logs etc.
• Good understanding of concepts related to docker Security, container orchestrations/Kubernetes)