MS Azure - Senior PKI & Venafi Engineer || Chicago, IL – 100% Onsite || 02667-1
VINEET SHARMA
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Position: MS Azure - Senior PKI & Venafi Engineer
Location: 333 S Wabash Ave,
Chicago, IL – 100% Onsite
Duration: 6 Months
Requirements / Responsibilities
Certificate Lifecycle Management
- Administer and support enterprise Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) services.
- Manage the complete certificate lifecycle including Discovery, Request, Issuance, Renewal, Revocation, Deployment, Monitoring, and Retirement.
- Ensure certificates remain compliant with enterprise standards and industry requirements.
- Support certificate inventory management and visibility initiatives.
- Assist with remediation of expiring certificates, unmanaged certificates, self-signed certificates, and non-compliant certificates.
Venafi Platform Administration
- Administer and maintain the Venafi platform and supporting infrastructure.
- Configure and manage Policies, Workflows, Certificate Authorities, Integrations, Discovery jobs, Notifications, Reporting, and Access controls.
- Support platform upgrades, maintenance activities, and technology refresh initiatives.
- Collaborate with Venafi support and vendors to resolve technical issues and implement enhancements.
Application Onboarding & Solution Engineering
- Lead application onboarding activities into the Certificate Lifecycle Management platform.
- Assess application certificate requirements and define onboarding approaches.
- Design and implement automation patterns suitable for application needs.
- Partner with application teams to understand deployment architectures, certificate formats, trust requirements, and operational processes.
- Support onboarding across Windows, Linux, Azure, Kubernetes, WebLogic, IIS, F5, Kafka, Solace, Ping, and cloud-native platforms.
- Provide technical consultation and solution recommendations to application teams.
Certificate Automation
- Design, implement, and support certificate lifecycle automation solutions.
- Develop automation patterns using Venafi Native Drivers, Venafi APIs, vCert Utilities, CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Python, and Ansible.
- Automate certificate renewal, provisioning, deployment validation, and application restart activities.
- Drive reduction of manual certificate deployment processes and operational risk.
- Create reusable automation patterns and onboarding frameworks for adoption across the enterprise.
PKI Operations & Resiliency
- Support internal PKI infrastructure and certificate authority services.
- Participate in Certificate Authority operations, CRL publication activities, backup and recovery testing, Disaster Recovery exercises, and platform resiliency improvements.
- Monitor certificate ecosystem health and availability.
- Support root and intermediate certificate management activities.
- Participate in major incident response and troubleshooting efforts.
Essential Skills
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior PKI & Venafi Engineer to support and enhance the organization's Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) capabilities.
This role will be responsible for application onboarding, certificate lifecycle automation, PKI operations, certificate governance, platform resiliency, and technical consultation across hybrid and cloud environments.
The successful candidate will serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise certificates, PKI architecture, Venafi Trust Protection Platform, certificate automation patterns, and operational support.
The engineer will work closely with application teams, infrastructure teams, cloud teams, security architects, and vendors to ensure certificates are deployed, monitored, renewed, and governed securely throughout their lifecycle.
Responsibilities align closely to automation, onboarding, renewal, discovery, governance, and resiliency objectives documented within the CLM program.
Skills
Digital: Microsoft Azure, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Experience Required: 8–10 Years
Thank You!
Vineet Kumar Sharma
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Email ID: vineet...@pacerstaffing.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vineetshr
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