What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Systems Engineer (PKI, SSL/TSL, Cryptography, protocols, Venafi) position at Vertafore Career Center?
Vertafore is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our SaaS Operations organization in Hyderabad, India. The role will be primarily focusing on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) or digital certificates management at the infrastructure and application layers. The successful candidate will report to the Director of SaaS Operations.
Core Requirements and Responsibilities:
- Subject matter expert of digital certificate technology that includes all tiers in Certificate Authority (CA) hierarchy.
- Identify and document PKI requirements for all infrastructure devices and software within the company.
- Create and maintain documentation on certificate installation guidelines.
- The first point of contact in response to the renewal of digital certificates before expirations.
- Execute fulfillment requests to purchase or renew certificates.
- Renew certificates before their expiry.
- Coordinate certification installations and revoke unused certificates with other technical teams to ensure no outage to devices and software.
- Collaborate with the vendor and other technical teams as required to reach resolutions on any issues related to digital certificates.
- Automate monitoring and alerting of the validity of all digital certificates at infrastructure and applications layers.
- Automate installations of all digital certificates from F5, servers and application layers.
- Stay abreast with the latest security and compliance matters related to digital certificates.
- Perform a regular audit or SSL test to ensure all devices and applications making the most secure communications based on industry standards.
- Provide consultations on best practices using the SSL/TLS encryption protocols.
- Create reporting on the validity status of certificates to management.
- Perform any other tasks that assigned by management.
- Be on call as required.
