Senior Security Engineer - Certificate Automation Engineer

Certificate Automation Engineer

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 life cycles and future quantum-safe requirements.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• 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 include:

• 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 concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge in enterprise information security technologies including encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), certificate authorities, identity management, and network security.
• Hands-on experience with certificate lifecycle management, with strong emphasis on certificate deployment and installation across infrastructure platforms.
• Experience working with enterprise systems such as servers, load balancers, and web/application servers.
• Experience developing automation solutions using scripting or automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Python, APIs).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with certificate management platforms such as Venafi or similar enterprise PKI solutions.
• Experience integrating automation with Service Now or similar workflow/orchestration platforms.
• Hands-on experience automating certificate deployment on platforms such as:
• Load balancers (e.g., F5)
• Web servers (IIS, Apache, NGINX)
• Application servers and middleware
• Familiarity with ACME protocols and API-driven certificate deployment.
• Experience working in large, complex enterprise environments, preferably within financial services or highly regulated industries.
• Understanding of Dev Ops and CI/CD pipelines as they relate to certificate deployment.
• Exposure to crypto agility concepts, including support for shorter certificate life cycles and awareness of quantum-safe cryptography initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with application teams and business stakeholders.
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