SENIOR PKI SECURITY ENGINEER

Job Title: SENIOR PKI SECURITY ENGINEER
Location: McleanVA
Duration: 12 Months
Visa: USC GC H1B and EAD
Contract Type: W2

Hardware Security

Python/Java a big plus

Licensing management

Metric and PCG Keys

Certificate discovery inventory tools

Crypto knowledge

Post quantum encryption testing

Tickets in Jira

AWS environment

Senior PKI Security Engineer within the Cyber organization who will be responsible for providing operational engineering and project support for an enterprise PKI environment. The Senior PKI Security Engineer is considered to be the expert in the operations of PKI Certificates and Encryption and should have expert level experience supporting large-scale and highly complex environments. This role will also require the ability to lead and coordinate efforts among the team. Individuals must be self-motivated and must be able to work well in a geographically dispersed virtual team environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate or lead complex or high severity troubleshooting and incident problem resolutions with other infrastructure teams or vendors
• Analysis design and implementation of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate and security solutions
• Translate business needs into workable technology solutions that meet the needs of internal customers Act as a project lead or participate as a team member on projects involving PKI certificates and security
• Monitor the PKI and Certificate incident queue and resolve all levels of issues Create review approve and implement changes to the PKI and Certificate environment
• Analyze current PKI and Certificate environment to identify both technical and operational challenges and develop solutions for improvement Act as PKI and Certificate lead on complex incidents changes or upgrades
• Represent the Crypto Services team on global incident management calls including interacting with other technical teams customers or vendors
• Analyze data and identify trends to facilitate root cause analysis and identify opportunities for service improvement
• Participate in capacity planning performance monitoring and maintenance to ensure high availability and proactively identify opportunities for service improvement
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles.
• Act as the PKI and Certificate lead for periodic disaster recovery exercises
• Participate on an off hours on-call support rotation
• Effectively communicate technical issueschallenges to both technical and non-technical audiences

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma GED or equivalent certification
• At least 4 years of Information Technology experience
• At least 2 years of experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or Engineering
• Understanding of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles
• Experience leading technical teams or leading projects
• AWS Certification
• Experience in Python or other programing or scripting languages
• 3 years of PKI Experience
• Experience in PKI certificate and security technical experience that includes the operational support and implementation of large-scale enterprise level solutions
• 2 years UNIX experience