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Role: Venafi Certification Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL (day1 onsite, Hybrid role )
Duration: Contract
Job Description:
- 10 years of experience in PKI, certificate management, or machine identity management and 4 years of Hands-on experience with Venafi TPP and/or Venafi as a Service.
- Strong understanding of: PKI concepts, X.509 certificates, TLS/SSL, Certificate Signing Requests (CSR), Key management, Cryptographic standards
- Experience integrating with enterprise Certificate Authorities and public CA providers.
- Knowledge of certificate lifecycle management processes including issuance, renewal, revocation, and expiration tracking.
- Experience with scripting or automation using: PowerShell, Python, Bash, REST APIs
- Familiarity with Windows and Linux server environments.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident resolution skills in certificate and PKI environments.
- Understanding of security best practices related to encryption, secrets, and key protection.
- Design, deploy, and manage Venafi solutions for enterprise certificate lifecycle management.
- Configure and maintain certificate discovery, monitoring, renewal, and revocation processes.
- Integrate Venafi with internal and external Certificate Authorities (CAs) such as Microsoft CA, DigiCert, Entrust, or other PKI providers.
- Automate certificate provisioning and renewal for servers, applications, load balancers, APIs, and cloud-native platforms.
- Manage machine identities, private keys, and cryptographic assets in accordance with security standards.
- Implement policy-based governance for certificate issuance, renewal, and expiration tracking.
Integrate Venafi with infrastructure components such as:
- Web servers, Application servers, Load balancers, Kubernetes, Cloud platforms, DevOps pipelines
- Work with security, infrastructure, and application teams to reduce certificate-related outages and improve security posture.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team