PKI Security Analyst - Brussels, Belgium

PKI Security Analyst - Brussels, Belgium

LANGUAGES: ENGLISH only

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Proven experience in security risk assessments, development of functional security requirements, process design and management reporting
- Experience in security design, architecture and project management is a strong advantage
- Service oriented, organized and independent security professional
- Minimum of at least least 5 years solid experience in:
- Applied cryptography
- PKI administration
- Managing digital certificates
- Verifying digital certificates
- 3rd line support towards IT and business teams for certificate
- Key generation/operations/processes on target systems or business application
- Ability to implement, operate and maintain PKI operational services (CA, RA, CRL, HSM) both IT and business process oriented
- Experience working with X.509 PKI, Smartcards, HSMs and common PKI-based protocols, including SSL and TLS
- Knowledge of PKI and cryptographic standards eg. NIST, FIPS, DoD

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:

- Responsible for the administration, operation, upgrade and support of the PKI Servers, PKI operating systems, Certification Authorities (CA), Registration Authorities (RA), and Hardware Security Modules (HSM) for an enterprise wide Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) containing multiple CA's with different trust levels
- Ensure alignment with relevant PKI compliance and best practices
- Write and maintain PKI policies (CP/CPS)
- Define, implement and ensures the proper functioning of security trust services within the PKI & Cryptographic security domain in line with IT security policies
- Define, implement and maintain the PKI hierarchy and the certificate policies
- Oversee and improve the current certificate life cycle processes
- Ensure adherence to the CA Certificate practice statement
- Ensure PKI/CA best practices for special purpose Certificate authorities eg CA for Mobile device management, MS PKI CA for device client certificates, Cisco CA
- Define and manage the key management life cycle processes to ensure adequate cryptographic key protection and use
- Use the Venafi product suite to facilitate and operate key management operations
- Support the secure implementation of Smartcard or HSM-based certificate authentication on technology and process point of view
- Perform risk assessments and define application and infrastructure-related security requirements for business and IT projects
- Perform security validation to ensure effective implementation of security controls
- Act as security subject matter expert in the PKI and crypto domain and be the security point of contact for the business, administrator, technical and project teams.

Please send your CV to Carlos and call to discuss further.

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