PKI Venafi Architect | Jobs at Bolt Talent Solutions

Job Description

PKI and Security Architecture

Design and maintain enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) architecture, including Root CA, Issuing CA, CRL, OCSP, HSM, and trust frameworks.
Develop certificate governance standards, policies, and cryptographic control frameworks.
Architect highly available and resilient PKI and Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms.
Drive enterprise machine identity and certificate management strategy.

Venafi Platform Architecture

Design and administer Venafi Trust Protection Platform (TPP).
Define onboarding standards, workflows, policies, reporting, discovery jobs, and access models.
Architect integrations between Venafi and enterprise applications, cloud services, and security platforms.
Lead Venafi platform upgrades, enhancements, and optimisation initiatives.

Certificate Lifecycle Automation

Architect automated certificate provisioning and renewal solutions.
Design automation frameworks using:
- Venafi APIs
- vCert
- PowerShell
- Python
- Ansible
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD pipelines
Drive adoption of certificate automation across enterprise application portfolios.

Application and Cloud Integration

Lead application onboarding into CLM services.
Support certificate deployment and automation across:
- Windows Server
- Linux/Unix
- IIS
- Apache
- Tomcat
- WebLogic
- Kubernetes
- Azure
- AWS
- F5 Load Balancers
- Kafka
- Solace
- PingFederate
Provide architecture guidance and troubleshooting support for complex trust and certificate-related issues.

Governance and Compliance

Ensure compliance with NIST, PCI-DSS, SOX, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and enterprise security standards.
Conduct cryptographic risk assessments and certificate posture reviews.
Define certificate ownership models and governance processes.
Support audits and regulatory compliance activities.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related discipline.
10+ years of Information Security experience.
5+ years of hands-on PKI architecture experience.
5+ years of Venafi Trust Protection Platform experience.
Strong expertise in:
- X.509 certificates
- TLS/SSL
- PKI
- CLM
- CRL/OCSP
- HSM technologies
- Digital signatures
- Cryptographic key management
Experience designing PKI solutions in Azure and AWS environments.
Strong scripting skills using PowerShell and Python.

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Skills

PKI and Cryptography

Venafi

Cloud and DevOps

Programming and Automation

Leadership Expectations

Serve as the PKI and Machine Identity Subject Matter Expert (SME).
Provide technical leadership to engineering and operations teams.
Develop enterprise PKI roadmaps and modernisation strategies.
Mentor engineers and establish best practices for certificate lifecycle management.
Drive Zero Trust and identity-centric security initiatives.

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