Senior Security Engineer - Certificate Automation Engineer
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1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:
Responsible for advancing and scaling certificate automation across the enterprise with a primary focus on automated certificate deployment, installation, and validation across infrastructure platforms.This role builds on existing certificate issuance and renewal automation to enable end-to-end lifecycle automation, ensuring certificates are consistently deployed, correctly configured, and validated across servers, load balancers, middleware, and application environments.
Partners with applications, infrastructure, and business teams to reduce operational risk, eliminate manual processes, and improve reliability of certificate management. Contributes to enterprise crypto agility initiatives, including readiness for evolving certificate lifecycles and future quantum-safe requirements.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed as needed.
Design and implement automation solutions focused on certificate installation, deployment, and binding across enterprise platforms (servers, load balancers, web servers, and middleware).
Extend existing certificate automation (e.g., Venafi issuance / renewal) into end-to-end lifecycle automation, with emphasis on the “last mile” deployment.
Develop and maintain automation frameworks using such tools as Ansible, APIs, and scripting to enable consistent and repeatable certificate installs.
Integrate certificate automation with infrastructure platforms including load balancers (e.g., F5), web servers (IIS, Apache, NGINX), application, and database servers.
Partners with application and infrastructure teams to onboard systems to automated certificate deployment, reducing manual installation and configuration errors.
Establish and enforce standardized deployment patterns for certificate installation across common platforms.
Implement pre- and post-installation validation controls to confirm certificates are correctly deployed, trusted, and actively serving traffic.
Identify and remediate gaps in certificate deployment processes that contribute to outages, failed renewals, or misconfigurations.
Support troubleshooting and root cause analysis of certificate-related incidents, with a focus on eliminating recurring issues through automation.
Collaborate with engineering and business teams to align automation solutions with operational requirements and risk management objectives.
Contribute to enterprise initiatives supporting shortened certificate lifecycle and crypto agility, ensuring automation solutions scale with increasing renewal frequency.
Provide technical leadership and guidance on certificate deployment with best practices and automation strategies.
Lead or contribute to projects with moderate to high complexity, driving delivery of scalable and resilient solutions.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and con
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