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Join a leading Victorian organisation renowned for its commitment to innovation, digital transformation, and world-class service delivery. With a strong focus on cyber security, technology excellence, and continuous improvement, this organisation offers the opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise initiatives that have a meaningful impact across a complex setting.

Your new role

As a PKI - Engineer, you will play a key role in leading the delivery of a large-scale enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) program. As the subject-matter expert for cryptographic services, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing secure certificate management frameworks while ensuring alignment with security, governance, and operational requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the end-to-end delivery of enterprise PKI solutions.
- Designing and implementing cryptographic architectures and certificate management frameworks.
- Developing PKI strategies, security policies, and Certificate Practice Statements.
- Driving automation initiatives to improve certificate life cycle management and operational efficiency.
- Providing technical leadership and consultancy across cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application teams.
- Managing stakeholder engagement and ensuring successful delivery and operational transition of PKI services.
- Evaluating emerging cryptographic technologies and recommending security improvements.
- Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and audit compliance activities.





What you'll need to succeed To be successful in this role, you will bring a strategic mindset with the ability to evaluate and adopt emerging security technologies. You'll also need:
- Extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale PKI programs as a lead engineer or technical specialist.
- Strong knowledge of cryptographic technologies, authentication protocols, certificates, and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
- Experience designing and implementing certificate lifecycle automation solutions.
- Strong understanding of cyber security principles, governance frameworks, and compliance requirements.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex technical challenges.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience producing technical documentation, architecture designs, and operational procedures.

What you'll get in return
- Work alongside highly skilled cyber security and infrastructure professionals.
- Exposure to complex enterprise environments and modern security technologies.
- Flexible and collaborative working culture.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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📌 PKI Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Hays
📍 Melbourne