Senior PKI Engineer

Job title: Senior PKI Engineer

About the Role As a member of our IT team in Frankfurt/Main, you will help build and further develop a strategic technology foundation across EY countries, ensuring end-to-end technology excellence. You will operate, maintain, and continuously improve enterprise PKI services to ensure high availability, security, and compliance. You will design PKI solutions to support new and existing encryption and cryptographic services, and you will take a leading technical role in security initiatives while collaborating with stakeholders and project teams.

What You'll Do

• Operate, maintain, and continuously improve enterprise PKI services to ensure high availability, security, and compliance.
• Design and implement PKI solutions to support new and existing encryption and cryptographic services.
• Ensure all PKI systems comply with internal security policies, standards, and industry best practices.
• Take a leading technical role in security initiatives and collaborate closely with stakeholders, senior management, and project teams.
• Develop and promote PKI/PKE best practices, stay up to date on emerging technologies and threats, and represent PKI Engineering in cross-functional initiatives.

What We're Looking For

• Degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in Information Assurance, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field, combined with at least 8 years of relevant engineering experience with increasing responsibility.
• Relevant security certification (e.g. CISSP, SSCP, CISM, GSEC, ECSA, ECSP, Security+) and strong hands-on experience in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), ideally including tools such as Venafi and/or KeyFactor.
• Expertise in code signing and cryptographic services, experience with Hardware Security Modules (e.g. SafeNet or nCipher), as well as solid knowledge of PowerShell, REST APIs, and cloud-based PKI solutions (Azure/AWS).
• Mindset: Agile, Curious, Collaborative. Agile: You believe that a flexible mindset is just as important for success as knowledge and skills. Curious: You are ambitious and committed. We are looking for people who think in terms of opportunities instead of challenges and ask targeted questions to unlock better answers. Collaborative: You value diverse perspectives and enjoy working in a team. We are looking for people to help us shape the future and create a working environment based on trust.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: Competitive. EY offers a flexible and inclusive working environment, with inspiring colleagues and opportunities for training and development on and off the job. A steep learning curve is guaranteed.