Job Title: Certificate Lifecycle/ PKI Engineer with Venafi Expertise

Job Title: Certificate Lifecycle/ PKI Engineer with Venafi Expertise
Location: Chicago-IL

Work Arrangement: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 6-12+ Months


Key Responsibilities :


Certificate Lifecycle Management Administer and support enterprise Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) services.
Manage the complete certificate lifecycle including:
DiscoveryoRequestoIssuanceoRenewaloRevocationoDeploymentoMonitoringoRetirement
Ensure certificates remain compliant with enterprise standards and industry requirements.
Support certificate inventory management and visibility initiatives.


Assist with remediation of expiring| unmanaged| self-signed| and non-compliant certificates Venafi Platform Administration Administer and maintain the Venafi platform and supporting infrastructure.
Configure and manage:
Policies
Workflows
Certificate
Authorities
Integrations
Discovery jobs
Notifications
Reporting
Access controls


Support platform upgrades| maintenance activities| and technology refresh initiatives.
Collaborate with Venafi support and vendors to resolve technical issues and implement enhancements. Application Onboarding & Solution Engineering
Lead application onboarding activities into the Certificate Lifecycle Management platform.
Assess application certificate requirements and define onboarding approaches.
Design and implement automation patterns suitable for application needs.
Partner with application teams to understand deployment architectures| certificate formats| trust requirements| and operational processes.


Support onboarding across: oWindowsoLinuxoAzureoKubernetesoWebLogicoIISoF5oKafkaoSolaceoPingoCloud-native platforms Provide technical consultation and solution recommendations to application teams. Certificate Automation Design| implement| and support certificate lifecycle automation solutions.
Develop automation patterns using :
Venafi Native Drivers
Venafi APIs
vCert Utilities
CI/CD Pipelines
GitHub Actions
Azure DevOps
PowerShell
python
Ansible Automate certificate renewal| provisioning| deployment validation| and application restart activities.


Drive reduction of manual certificate deployment processes and operational risk.
Create reusable automation patterns and onboarding frameworks for adoption across the enterprise.
PKI Operations & Resiliency Support internal PKI infrastructure and certificate authority services.


Participate in:
Certificate Authority operations
CRL publication activities
Backup and recovery testing
Disaster Recovery exercises
Platform resiliency improvements Monitor certificate ecosystem health and availability.
Support root and intermediate certificate management activities.
Participate in major incident response and troubleshooting efforts Security & Governance Support certificate governance and compliance initiatives.
Maintain certificate ownership| metadata| and accountability records.


Ensure adherence to security standards for:
TLS/SSL
certificate issuance
cryptographic key management
certificate Authority controls


Essential Skills: Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior PKI & Venafi Engineer to support and enhance the organizations Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) capabilities.
This role will be responsible for application onboarding| certificate lifecycle automation| PKI operations| certificate governance| platform resiliency| and technical consultation across hybrid and cloud environments.
The successful candidate will serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise certificates| PKI architecture| Venafi Trust Protection Platform| certificate automation patterns| and operational support.
The engineer will work closely with application teams| infrastructure teams| cloud teams| security architects| and vendors to ensure certificates are deployed| monitored| renewed| and governed securely throughout their lifecycle.
Responsibilities align closely to automation| onboarding| renewal| discovery| governance| and resiliency objectives documented within the CLM program.




Work Authorization
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.


Equal Employment Opportunity 
[Themesoft Inc] is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We consider qualified applica