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Basingstoke
5 months ago
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PKI Architect

+Permanent opportunity

+On site in Basignstoke

+DV cleared role

Skills:

+PKI

+Architect experience

+HLD and LLD

Are you a motivated individual who is enthusiastic about Cyber Security? Do you want to make an impact and change the way the world works? Do you want to collaborate and achieve together with committed people to define the security requirements and risks affecting the design, delivery and implementation of the Service.

We are looking for a PKI Architect to join our established team of PKI architects. You will support the delivery of highly secure network services into our customers within Defence and Central Government, performing a key role in a customer facing team. You will be working with the solution architects, security architects and project teams to deliver a high assurance service from design to delivery.

Responsibilities
You will be required to work as part of a team or alone providing PKI specialism to help define and deliver major technical projects/strategies/architectures. You should have established knowledge and skills in the following areas:
*A sound and extensive knowledge of PKI and Cryptography solution design
*Experience in MS Certificate Management Services (Certification Authority, Online Responder, Network Device Enrollment (NDES) Services, Certificate Enrollment Web Services (CEP/CES), Active Directory Domain Services and certificate management solutions.
*Expert level experience in SSL certificate management concepts, processes, solution management and tools including OpenSSL and Certutil.
*Hardware security module (HSM) technology and Key Management Server (KMS) technology. Direct experience with Thales HSM platforms is highly desirable.
*Expert level experience in cloud solution development with Azure or AWS architectures as is related to PKI management.
*Extensive Cryptography & PKI solution design experience (HLD & LLD) required.

If you would like to discuss this PKI Architect in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch

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