SSL/TLS Certificate Management Specialist

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

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Responsibilities

We have an exciting opportunity at the Department of State! The SSL/TLS Certificate Management Specialist will administer and maintain Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security certificate management and renewal as part of the Network Engineering Team. This ensures we deliver secure network capability that supports the customer’s mission to provide IT services to DoS users enterprise wide.

Responsibilities:

• You will provide network engineering services to optimize and standardize LAN networks at DoS facilities, incorporating modern tools and technologies.
• You will coordinate with DoS Networking Teams to engineer upgrades to WAN links connecting CONUS and OCONUS customer facilities, ensuring modernized connectivity and improved bandwidth.
• Additionally, you will design and implement high-availability load balancing, denial of service detection and remediation, and dynamic service health checks to maximize availability of all public-facing websites in the public DMZs, leveraging modern network technologies.
• You will be required to monitor permissions and audit logs for governance violations and report them.
• You will be responsible for managing and updating all guides, KM articles, and SOPs related to the customer’s SSL/TLS Certificate Management processes and systems.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

The following are the education and experience required for this position:

• 4+ years
• Bachelor's in IT or related field
• Secret Security Clearance

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Comp TIA Sec+, ITIL 4 Foundation Certification(s)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• • Sitting for long periods
  • Standing for long periods
  • Ambulate throughout an office
  • Ambulate between several buildings
  • Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
  • Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to 40 pounds
  • Travel by land or air transportation up to 25%

About Empower AI

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.