
PKI Engineer – Operations and Engineering, Assistant Vice President
State Street
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Kilkenny • Ireland
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About the role
- Shape and execute the enterprise PKI strategy with a strong operational lens
- Define and document certificate and signing key standards for internal systems and cloud platforms
- Set requirements for certificate rotation, revocation, and incident response paths
- Evaluate and onboard automation and discovery tools that expand certificate inventory coverage
- Run internal CA platforms and integrations with external CAs
- Manage HSM-backed private keys and secure signing workflows
- Build and scale certificate automation for issuance, renewal, rotation, and revocation
- Integrate PKI into CI/CD pipelines, cloud workloads, and service identities
- Design workflows for compromised, expired, or non-compliant certificates
- Track metrics for inventory completeness, revocation SLAs, rotation success, and automation coverage
- Produce executive-level updates that clearly show progress, risk, and operational health
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
- 3–5 years working with certificate management, KMS, or CA platforms
- 3–5 years administering Windows and Linux/Unix systems
- Experience with: Internal and external CAs
- Certificate lifecycle automation
- HSM-backed key storage and signing
- Secrets or certificate discovery platforms
- Incident paths for compromised and expired certificates
- PKI integrations in cloud and CI/CD pipelines
- IAM experience, MFA, privileged access controls, DR resiliency planning
Benefits
- Inclusive development opportunities
- Flexible work-life support
- Paid volunteer days
- Vibrant employee networks
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
certificate managementKMSCA platformsWindows systems administrationLinux systems administrationcertificate lifecycle automationHSM-backed key storagePKI integrationsCI/CD pipelinesIAM
Soft skills
operational strategydocumentationincident responsemetrics trackingexecutive communication