- Hands-on experience with Venafi Trust Protection Platform (TPP) and/or Venafi TLS Protect, including certificate discovery, lifecycle management, and operational support.
- Strong understanding of PKI concepts including:
- Digital Certificates
- Certificate Authorities (CA)
- Registration Authorities (RA)
- Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
- Key Generation
- Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
- Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
- Experience managing the complete certificate lifecycle, including certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, replacement, and expiration management.
- Experience onboarding applications, servers, load balancers, network devices, and cloud services into Venafi-managed certificate ecosystems.
- Knowledge of cryptographic standards and algorithms including RSA, ECC, SHA-2, PKCS, TLS/SSL, and X.509 certificates.
- Experience supporting enterprise Certificate Authorities such as:
- Microsoft ADCS
- DigiCert
- Entrust
- Sectigo
- GlobalSign
- Other public and private CAs
- Experience managing and troubleshooting SSL/TLS certificates across:
- Windows Servers
- Linux/Unix Servers
- Web Servers (IIS, Apache, NGINX)
- Application Servers
- Network Devices
- Familiarity with certificate deployment and automation using: PowerShell, Python, Shell Scripting, REST APIs.
- Experience integrating Venafi with enterprise platforms such as: Active Directory, LDAP, SIEM Solutions, ITSM Platforms, Cloud Platforms, DevOps Toolchains
Working knowledge of cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP, with understanding of cloud-native certificate and key management services.
Experience supporting certificate management for containers and modern platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and CI/CD pipelines.
Understanding of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), key protection mechanisms, and certificate security best practices.
- Knowledge of security and compliance requirements including NIST, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, and GDPR.
- Ability to monitor certificate health, identify expiring certificates, perform risk assessments, and support remediation activities.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to provide L2 operational support and incident resolution for PKI environments.
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