Senior Information Security Engineer-PKI, Venafi, Cryptography, Certificate Management

Overview

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Be a contributing member of the collaborative team responsible for Optum’s Digital Certificate Services. This position will be responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the enterprise certificate lifecycle management platform along with the related core capabilities of ensuring domain validation and certificate operations including issuance, renewal, and revocation are always available for applications and platforms. Collaborate with other IT teams to drive certificate automation and other certificate management best practices. Provide operational support in the day-to-day tasks involved with providing a centralized, enterprise certificate management platform.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide operations support in the day-to-day tasks of managing certificates using Venafi Data Center Protect
• Engineer and develop tactical and strategic solutions to improve and automate certificate management
• Engineer and drive forward new initiatives that support and enhance Certificate Lifecycle Management
• Provide innovative solutions to automate repetitive operational tasks
• Analyze, design, develop and deploy integrations to help adopt Venafi products in customer environments
• Participate as an independent contributor within an agile based team
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of PKI, certificate management, or related experience
• Experience with certificate lifecycle management platforms, with emphasis on Venafi
• Scripting and automation experience leveraging Powershell, Python, or other scripting languages
• Understanding of X.509 certificates and general certificate management processes
• Serve as a subject matter expert regarding certificate management operation for internal teams
• Ability to participate in on call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience
• CISSP or other security related certification
• Cloud Infrastructure experience in any of the major CSP’s including MS Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Identity and Access Management experience

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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