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Certificate Management Administrator

Omaha, NE or San Jose, CA

CSS Staffing, based in Omaha, NE, has an open position with a large client for a Certificate Management Administrator in either Omaha, NE or San Jose, CA

The successful candidate will possess the following skills:

• Ability to perform 7x24 on-call duty on a rotational basis with other team members

·         Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management

·         Exhibits leadership qualities and strong procedural and architectural documentation skills

·         Experience in a user-focused technical-support environment

·         Flexible, adaptable, and able to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic, high-pressure, fast-paced environment

·         Minimum 10 years of Windows Systems Administration experience.

·         Demonstrable experience in the full spectrum of standard administrative tasks such as server builds, applying security best practices, solving complex issues and the planning and execution of large scale deployments of new hardware and applications on a global scale

·         Minimum 5 years in a PKI or Certificate Management support role with practical experience having designed and implemented on a large global corporate environment

·         Minimum 5 years in an Active Directory support role with practical experience having designed and implemented a multi domain and/or multi forest AD in a corporate environment

·         Minimum 5 years of experience using a scripting language such as VBScript, .Net, PowerShell or Perl

·         Proven experience with deploying and supporting PKI Services and Certificate Management in a large corporate environment (EFS, SCEP and SSL certificates and personal certificates for encryption)

·         Proficient understanding of related technology areas such as Active Directory, NPS, DHCP, DNS, F5 Load balancing, and VMware

·         Fundamental understanding of authentication mechanisms such as Kerberos, LDAP and NTLM and use of necessary tools to troubleshoot them

·         Experience with administration and oversight of GPOs and their relationship to OUs in a large multi-region environment

·         Proven troubleshooting skills and ability to understand complex relationships and roles between components of a multi-domain infrastructure

·         Proficiency with common Windows System administration and AD tools essential

·         Experience with deploying and maintaining the following products: InfoBlox, Quest AD Recovery Manager and Change Auditor, Splunk, Prism EventTracker, Microsoft SCOM, Hitachi Password Manager

Core Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Manager of Directory Services and Automation, this position’s primary responsibility is to maintain, administer and evolve global PKI management infrastructure and Active Directory
• Position will help drive adoptions of new certificate management technology and implement Global IT Directory Services standards to ensure uptime and daily delivery of according to defined SLAs and domain security best practices.
• Operational portion of the role will require systems configuration, software installation, technical support, standards definition, new features implementation, assess systems utilization to assist in troubleshooting and performance tuning, Directory Services administration and configuration, LDAP support, software installation and troubleshooting, hardware build out and documentation, SSL Support, Certificate issuance, management and discovery
• Position will work with the various application teams to better understand application requirements related to directory services and making recommendations and implementing support processes
• Help manage corporate PKI and AD environment in a 7x24x52 worldwide infrastructure with multiple physical sites
• Participate in projects driven from the Directory Services manager and be a representative for the global infrastructure team for local support
• Assess and perform systems utilization and headroom reports to assist in troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Proactively identify potential production issues and recommend and implement solutions
• Act as the escalation point for all lower level support issues and be able to perform support and follow through to resolution for local issues affecting the business
• Work on ticket submittals to tier 3 from end users for support and resolution

Additional Information:

• Start Date: ASAP
• Assignment Length: On-going managed service contract/multi-year extensions anticipated