Senior Certificate Lifecycle Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior Certificate Lifecycle 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 work 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 expands its digital capabilities, we recognize the importance of strong identity assurance, trusted digital communications, secure system authentication, and reliable cryptographic controls.

Digital certificates play a critical role in protecting business applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, network communications, and sensitive project information. We are committed to strengthening cybersecurity through effective certificate governance, automation, continuous monitoring, and standardized lifecycle management practices that reduce operational risk and support business continuity.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Certificate Lifecycle Specialist to oversee the lifecycle management of digital certificates across enterprise infrastructure, applications, networks, cloud environments, endpoints, and business-critical systems. The successful candidate will manage certificate discovery, inventory, enrollment, issuance, renewal, deployment, validation, revocation, and retirement while ensuring that certificates remain secure, valid, correctly configured, and aligned with organizational policies.

This role will collaborate closely with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Cybersecurity, Information Security, Network, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, and Service Management teams to establish consistent certificate management processes and reduce the risks associated with expired, misconfigured, unauthorized, or compromised certificates.

The ideal candidate will possess strong knowledge of certificate authorities, certificate enrollment protocols, public key cryptography, certificate automation platforms, TLS/SSL, enterprise PKI, and certificate monitoring solutions. The role requires a proactive professional who can improve lifecycle automation, resolve complex certificate issues, maintain audit-ready documentation, and support secure digital operations across a distributed enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities
1.

Manage the complete lifecycle of digital certificates, including discovery, registration, enrollment, issuance, deployment, renewal, validation, revocation, archival, and retirement. Establish standardized processes for requesting, approving, issuing, installing, renewing, and decommissioning certificates. Maintain consistent lifecycle controls across production, development, testing, staging, disaster recovery, and other enterprise environments.

Ensure certificates are issued only for approved purposes, authorized identities, verified domains, and legitimate system requirements. Monitor certificate validity periods, expiration dates, renewal windows, and lifecycle status to prevent unexpected service disruptions. Coordinate certificate renewals and replacements with application owners, infrastructure teams, system administrators, and service providers. Verify that certificates are correctly installed and associated with the appropriate private keys, services, domains, and trust chains.

Ensure certificate lifecycle activities are documented, traceable, and performed according to approved procedures. Establish procedures for handling certificates that are expired, revoked, compromised, misconfigured, or no longer required. Identify and eliminate manual lifecycle practices that introduce avoidable operational risk. Develop repeatable certificate management processes that support service reliability and reduce administrative overhead. Maintain clear ownership and accountability for certificates used by critical business systems.

2. Certificate Discovery and Inventory Management

Discover digital certificates across servers, network devices, endpoints, databases, applications, cloud platforms, load balancers, web services, and other technology assets. Maintain a centralized inventory of certificates, including subject names, subject alternative names, issuers, serial numbers, fingerprints, validity periods, key algorithms, key sizes, and deployment locations. Record certificate ownership, business purpose, system dependencies, environment, renewal method, and responsible technical contacts.

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