Join a high-impact team driving the future of secure technology.
As a Senior Principal Security Certification Engineer, you’ll be a strategic leader within the Security Office, collaborating with top-tier security and architecture experts. Your role will shape certification strategy, guide compliance efforts, and influence product direction in response to evolving threats.
You’ll play a pivotal role in advancing cryptographic innovation and ensuring Entrust products meet global security standards—where trust, innovation, and security converge.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead Global Certifications: Manage FIPS 140, Common Criteria (CC), and regional certifications (e.g., NITES, PKTN, NATO) for new and existing products—ensuring timely, cost-effective approvals.
* Strategic Guidance: Advise Engineering and Product Management on certification requirements across global markets.
* Product Influence: Collaborate with Security Architects to define requirements for current and next-gen cryptographic modules.
* Trusted Advisor: Provide expert guidance on certification evolution and integration with Entrust products like Issuance HSM and Signature Activation Modules.
Basic Qualifications:
* Proven experience with security certifications (FIPS 140-2, CC, PCI), either in a lab or vendor setting.
* Strong understanding of applied cryptography and hands-on experience with HSMs.
* Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
* Self-driven and comfortable working in fast-paced environments.
* Willingness to travel up to 10%.
Preferred Qualifications and experience:
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
* Active contributor to certification standards working groups—sharing insights, shaping standards, and presenting industry knowledge.
Major Projects & How you could make an impact:
* Certification Leadership: Drive certification for Entrust cryptographic modules across global standards.
* Future-Proofing: Monitor emerging standards and guide compliance strategy.
* Post-Quantum Readiness: Partner with engineering teams to implement post-quantum cryptography aligned with certification goals.
* Secure Innovation: Evaluate the impact of AI and emerging technologies on development lifecycles, ensuring secure and compliant integration with FIPS, CC, and other standards.
About Entrust
Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities, payments and data protection around the globe. Today more than ever, people demand seamless, secure experiences, whether they’re crossing borders, making a purchase, or accessing corporate networks. With our unmatched breadth of digital security and credential issuance solutions, it’s no wonder the world’s most entrusted organizations trust us.
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