Senior Digital Certificate Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior Digital Certificate Specialist

Location:
United Arab Emirates (Remote) Employment Type: Full-Time Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us
We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined contract management, operational excellence, risk management, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams collaborate across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Design, Quality, HSE, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, and Executive Leadership to maintain secure, reliable, and resilient business operations. As our organization continues to expand its digital capabilities, we recognize the importance of trusted digital identities, secure electronic communications, reliable authentication, and strong cryptographic controls. Digital certificates are essential to protecting enterprise applications, cloud platforms, network infrastructure, connected devices, internal systems, and sensitive project information. We are committed to strengthening cybersecurity through effective certificate governance, secure Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), automated certificate management, and continuous monitoring to support business continuity, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. The Role We are seeking an experienced Senior Digital Certificate Specialist to manage, maintain, and enhance digital certificate services across our enterprise technology environment. This role will oversee certificate issuance, enrollment, installation, renewal, validation, revocation, and retirement while ensuring that digital certificates remain secure, trusted, properly configured, and aligned with organizational security standards. The successful candidate will support enterprise PKI, certificate authorities, TLS/SSL certificates, code-signing certificates, email security certificates, device certificates, and other certificate-based authentication and encryption technologies. The role will also focus on certificate discovery, inventory management, expiration monitoring, automation, troubleshooting, and risk reduction. Working closely with Cybersecurity, Information Security, Infrastructure, Network, Cloud, Application, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, and Service Management teams, the Senior Digital Certificate Specialist will help ensure that certificate-dependent services remain secure, available, and compliant with applicable requirements. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise in digital certificates, cryptographic technologies, certificate management platforms, and PKI operations with excellent problem-solving, documentation, stakeholder coordination, and security governance skills. 1. Enterprise Digital Certificate Management
Manage the complete lifecycle of digital certificates across enterprise systems, applications, infrastructure, networks, endpoints, and cloud environments. Coordinate certificate requests, identity verification, enrollment, issuance, deployment, renewal, validation, revocation, and retirement. Establish standardized procedures for certificate provisioning, installation, replacement, and decommissioning. Ensure certificates are issued only for authorized identities, verified domains, approved applications, and legitimate business purposes. Maintain appropriate certificate ownership, accountability, approval, and lifecycle tracking mechanisms. Verify that certificates contain accurate subject names, Subject Alternative Names (SANs), issuer information, key usage attributes, and validity periods. Ensure certificates are deployed to the correct systems and associated with the appropriate cryptographic keys and services. Review certificate configurations to identify incorrect attributes, weak cryptographic parameters, expired certificates, and inappropriate trust relationships. Coordinate certificate lifecycle activities with application owners, infrastructure administrators, service providers, and technology stakeholders. Establish consistent certificate management practices across production, development, testing, staging, and disaster recovery environments. Maintain detailed records of certificate issuance, renewal, deployment, revocation, and retirement activities. Identify opportunities to improve certificate lifecycle reliability, standardization, automation, and operational efficiency.
2. Public Key Infrastructure Administration
Support the administration, maintenance, and continuous improvement of enterprise Public Key Infrastructure environments. Coordinate with internal and external Certificate Authorities (CAs) to manage certificate issuance, renewal, validation, and revocation. Maintain documentation of certificate authority hierarchies, trusted root certificates, intermediate certificates, trust relationships, and issuance policies.