PKI Engineer - Operations and Engineering, Assistant Vice President

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a PKI Operations and Engineering leader at the Assistant Vice President level. This role owns the operational backbone of our certificate authority platforms, key management systems, and enterprise certificate lifecycle automation. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience running and scaling internal and external CAs, working with HSM-protected keys, and building automation that removes self-signed certificates and shortens rotation timelines without disrupting the business.

You’ll partner with security architects, infrastructure teams, and platform owners to strengthen our PKI footprint across data centers and cloud environments. This role needs someone who can translate technical requirements into clear standards, improve inventory coverage, and push execution across teams with confidence.

Why this role matters

PKI is a core security control in our environment. Certificates enable trusted authentication between users, workloads, and systems, and they’re central to protecting financial infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and Zero Trust initiatives. This team ensures our cryptographic identity layer is reliable, compliant, and automated at scale.

What you will own

Strategy, advisory, and standards

• Shape and execute the enterprise PKI strategy with a strong operational lens
• Define and document certificate and signing key standards for internal systems and cloud platforms
• Set requirements for certificate rotation, revocation, and incident response paths
• Evaluate and onboard automation and discovery tools that expand certificate inventory coverage
• Influence and align engineering, platform, and security teams on practical PKI priorities

Operations and engineering execution

• Run internal CA platforms and integrations with external CAs
• Manage HSM-backed private keys and secure signing workflows
• Build and scale certificate automation for issuance, renewal, rotation, and revocation
• Integrate PKI into CI/CD pipelines, cloud workloads, and service identities
• Partner with infrastructure teams to remove self-signed certificates and reduce certificate sprawl
• Design workflows for compromised, expired, or non-compliant certificates
• Track metrics for inventory completeness, revocation SLAs, rotation success, and automation coverage
• Produce executive-level updates that clearly show progress, risk, and operational health

Skills that matter most

• Experience running enterprise PKI platforms (internal + external CAs)
• Certificate lifecycle automation and inventory expansion at scale
• Cryptographic key management using HSMs and vault platforms
• Windows and Linux system administration
• Comfort operating in regulated financial environments
• Clear communicator who can drive change across teams
• Self-starter who takes ownership of outcomes and improves what they touch

Education and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
• 3–5 years working with certificate management, KMS, or CA platforms
• 3–5 years administering Windows and Linux/Unix systems
• Experience with:
  • Internal and external CAs
  • Certificate lifecycle automation
  • HSM-backed key storage and signing
  • Secrets or certificate discovery platforms
  • Incident paths for compromised and expired certificates
  • PKI integrations in cloud and CI/CD pipelines

Nice to have: IAM experience, MFA, privileged access controls, DR resiliency planning

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