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# Platform Engineer (PKI & Certificate Automation)

- **Company:** Auxo Talent
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £143,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, DevOps, Linux System Administration, Public Key Infrastructure, Ansible, SSL Certificate Management, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2882078383-platform-engineer-pki--certificate-automation

## About the Role

* 5+ years' experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering
 * Strong understanding of PKI and Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM)
 * AWS and/or GCP experience
 * Kubernetes and Linux administration
 * Terraform and Ansible
 * Python scripting and automation
 * Experience delivering infrastructure security automation

Desirable Experience

 * AppViewX
 * Venafi
 * Keyfactor
 * Financial Services or other highly regulated environments
 * Experience working in fast-moving engineering organisations

## Description

We're supporting a leading cybersecurity organisation undergoing a major security transformation programme and are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join a fast-paced engineering team.

This role will focus on automating certificate lifecycle management across cloud and application environments, helping to improve security, scalability and operational resilience., * Develop and implement certificate lifecycle automation

 * Automate certificate issuance, renewal, rotation and revocation processes
 * Integrate certificate management into cloud-native platforms and applications
 * Build Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and Ansible
 * Support certificate management across AWS and GCP environments
 * Create reusable automation, tooling and operational runbooks
 * Work closely with engineering teams to embed security automation at scale


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