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Senior PKI Security Engineer

Capital One
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Sept 2025
💰 $197,400/yr($144,200/yr – $197,400/yr)

About the role

Senior PKI Security Engineer

Capital One is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Engineer for its Cyber organization. This individual will provide operational, engineering, and project support for an enterprise Entrust and EJBCA-based PKI environment. The role requires an expert in PKI operations, certificates, and encryption, with extensive experience supporting large-scale, complex environments. The ability to lead and coordinate team efforts within a geographically dispersed, virtual team is essential.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead or participate in complex or high-severity troubleshooting and incident resolution with infrastructure teams and vendors

  • Analyze, design, and implement PKI, certificate, and security solutions

  • Translate business needs into effective technology solutions for internal customers

  • Act as a project lead or team member on PKI, certificate, and security-related projects

  • Monitor and resolve all levels of PKI and Certificate incident queue issues

  • Create, review, approve, and implement changes to the PKI and Certificate environment

  • Analyze the current PKI and Certificate environment to identify and resolve technical and operational challenges

  • Lead complex PKI and Certificate incidents, changes, or upgrades

  • Represent the Crypto Services team on global incident management calls, interacting with technical teams, customers, and vendors

  • Analyze data and identify trends for root cause analysis and service improvement

  • Participate in capacity planning, performance monitoring, and maintenance to ensure high availability and proactively identify service improvement opportunities

  • Lead PKI and Certificate efforts for periodic disaster recovery exercises

  • Effectively communicate technical challenges to both technical and non-technical audiences

  • Participate in an off-hours on-call support rotation

Basic Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification

  • At least 3 years of Information Technology experience

  • At least 2 years of experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate

  • At least 2 years of experience with certificate management protocols 

  • At least 2 years of experience with Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree

  • AWS Certification

  • 2+ years of experience in Python

  • 3+ years of Entrust PKI experience

  • 3+ years of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) experience

  • 3+ years of UNIX experience

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $158,600 - $181,000 for Prin Assoc, Cyber Technical


 

New York, NY: $173,000 - $197,400 for Prin Assoc, Cyber Technical


 

Plano, TX: $144,200 - $164,600 for Prin Assoc, Cyber Technical


 

Richmond, VA: $144,200 - $164,600 for Prin Assoc, Cyber Technical


 

San Jose, CA: $173,000 - $197,400 for Prin Assoc, Cyber Technical


 


 


 


 


 


 

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, whic

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