PKI Architect

Job Description

• Exciting opportunity for a skilled technician with excellent interpersonal skills who can learn and adapt to work across both Legacy and new technologies as part of a live system transitioned programme.
• Design and architect enterprise-grade PKI solutions
• Develop and enforce policies, standards, and procedures for digital certificate life cycle management.
• Implement and maintain Certificate Authorities, Registration Authorities, and associated infrastructure.
• Ensure secure deployment and configuration of PKI across enterprise systems, endpoints, applications, and devices.
• Collaborate with IDAM, DevOps, and cloud security teams to integrate PKI with broader identity and security architectures.
• Provide technical leadership in incident response and troubleshooting related to certificates and encryption.
• Stay current with industry standards, compliance requirements and emerging cryptographic technologies
• Document when required all architectures, policies, procedures, and system configurations related to PKI.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong experience in IT Security or Infrastructure with at least 3 years in PKI architecture and management.
• Deep knowledge of PKI components
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Microsoft ADCS, Thales HSM's, DigiCert, OpenSSL.
• Familiarity with certificate usage in TLS, S/MIME, code signing, document signing, VPN, smart cards, and secure email.
• Understanding of encryption algorithms, hash functions, and key management practices.
• Experience in designing secure architectures in hybrid or cloud environments.
• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, NIST 800-53.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CEH, GIAC, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access, or other IDAM equivalent Technologies.
• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture and Identity Federation.
• Exposure to quantum-safe cryptography principles and roadmaps

This role will require you to be willing and eligible to undergo a high level of UK security clearance

If you're interested in the above, apply or reach out to (see below)

Reasonable Adjustments:

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