Cyber Consultant (contract)

• We are seeking a Senior PKI and Cryptography Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise certificate and cryptographic services across our hybrid, multi-cloud environment.
• The role owns secure, full lifecycle certificate management - discovery, issuance, renewal, rotation, and revocation - and delivers integrations across cloud platforms, endpoints, network and security devices, and application stacks.
• This is a hands-on role for a self-starter who can scope and deliver complex initiatives independently, automate aggressively to eliminate manual toil, and partner across security, infrastructure, identity, and DevOps teams.
• You will set cryptographic standards, build the automation that enforces them, and shape a modern PKI program that supports both traditional infrastructure and cloud-native, zero-trust use cases., * Architect and operate enterprise PKI services, including offline root, policy, and issuing CA tiers with HSM-backed key protection.
• Implement and manage full certificate lifecycle automation across cloud, on-premises, endpoint, and network domains.
• Deploy and operate certificate lifecycle management platforms such as Keyfactor and Venafi.
• Design strong authentication solutions using smart cards, YubiKey, and identity certificates for workforce, privileged users, and machine identities.
• Define and enforce cryptographic standards and key management policies aligned to NIST, FIPS, and applicable compliance frameworks.
• Lead incident response and remediation for certificate-related outages or compromise scenarios.
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold the firm’s respectful and courteous work environment.

Do you have experience in Load balancing?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * Minimum seven years of recent experience in cybersecurity or infrastructure engineering, with at least four years focused on PKI and certificate management in large enterprise environments.

• Hands-on experience designing and operating multi-tier internal PKI (offline root, policy, issuing CAs) using Microsoft ADCS, EJBCA, or equivalent.
• Proven experience implementing certificate lifecycle automation via ACME, SCEP, EST, CMP, or REST APIs at scale.
• Strong experience with smart cards, YubiKey, and identity certificates (PIV, FIDO2/WebAuthn, certificate-based authentication).
• Experience integrating PKI with AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus endpoints, network devices, load balancers, and MDM platforms.
• Experience operating HSMs (Thales, Entrust, CloudHSM, Azure Managed HSM) with FIPS-aligned key ceremony and controls.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, information security, or related discipline; CISSP, CISM, or GIAC certifications a plus.
• Hands-on experience with Keyfactor (Command, EJBCA) and/or Venafi (TLS Protect, Trust Protection Platform).
• Experience integrating PKI with DevOps toolchains (HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager, service mesh, CI/CD pipelines).
• Familiarity with regulated environments (NIST, FIPS 140-2/3, PCI-DSS, SOX) and crypto-agility / post-quantum readiness., * PKI and Cryptograph y: X.509, RFC 5280, certificate profiles, CRL/OCSP, CA/B Forum baseline requirements; RSA, ECDSA, AES, SHA-2/3, TLS 1.2/1.3, mTLS, S/MIME, code signing.
• Identity Certificates and Strong Authentication: Smart cards (PIV/CAC), YubiKey (PIV, FIDO2, OpenPGP), Windows Hello for Business, integration with Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta.
• Certificate Lifecycle Management : Hands-on with Keyfactor and Venafi preferred, plus ACME, SCEP, EST, CMP, and REST-based enrollment workflows.
• Cloud and Platform Integration : AWS (ACM, Private CA, KMS), Azure (Key Vault, Managed HSM), GCP (CAS, KMS), Kubernetes cert-manager, and service mesh mTLS.
• DevOps and Automation : Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), and Git-based workflows.
• Scripting and Programming: Proficiency in at least one of Python, PowerShell, Go, or Bash for tooling and API integrations.

Professional Skills :

• Self-starter with strong ownership and the ability to drive initiatives end-to-end

3.83.8 out of 5 stars Remote $60 - $120 an hour - Contract

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