Cybersecurity, PKI Contract Opportunities — 5 Positions
Contract Type: Outside IR35
Working Arrangement: Fully remote, with occasional client-site visits
Initial Contract: 6 months minimum
Active SC Clearance : Mandatory
Programme Duration: Approximately 2 years of anticipated work
Start Date: 20th October
We are looking for experienced cybersecurity professionals to support enterprise security architecture, engineering and implementation programmes. These are long-term contract opportunities for specialists with strong hands-on technical expertise and experience delivering complex enterprise projects.
1. PKI Architect / Keyfactor SME — 2 Positions
Key Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end enterprise PKI architecture, including offline Root CA, intermediate and issuing CAs, certificate policies and trust models.
- Provide technical expertise in Keyfactor Command and Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM).
- Lead PKI transformation, centralisation, rationalisation and migration programmes.
- Implement certificate discovery, automated issuance, renewal, revocation, monitoring and API integrations.
- Integrate PKI with Microsoft AD CS, Windows and Linux infrastructure, enterprise applications and HSMs.
- Design high availability, CA redundancy, key backup and recovery, CRL/OCSP availability and disaster recovery.
- Provide technical leadership across architecture, design, engineering, implementation and governance.
Essential Experience
- Extensive enterprise PKI architecture and engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on Keyfactor Command / CLM expertise.
- Microsoft AD CS, HSM, X.509 certificates, TLS, CRL and OCSP.
- Experience delivering large-scale PKI transformation and centralisation.
- Strong technical stakeholder engagement and documentation skills.
Experience in UK government, defence or regulated environments is desirable.
2. SailPoint Engineer — 2 Positions
Key Responsibilities
- Configure, develop and implement SailPoint identity governance solutions.
- Deliver identity lifecycle management, including joiner, mover and leaver processes.
- Implement identity aggregation, account correlation, provisioning and deprovisioning.
- Configure access certifications, access requests, entitlement management and role-based access controls.
- Integrate SailPoint with Active Directory, LDAP, cloud platforms and enterprise applications.
- Develop connectors, workflows, rules and API integrations.
- Troubleshoot production issues and support testing, deployment and technical documentation.
Essential Experience
- Hands-on SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) and/or Identity Security Cloud (ISC) experience.
- Strong IAM and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) knowledge.
- Experience with provisioning, access reviews, connectors and enterprise integrations.
- Knowledge of REST APIs, scripting and directory services.
- Strong engineering and problem-solving skills.
Experience with Java, BeanShell and XML is desirable, particularly for IdentityIQ roles.
3. CyberArk Engineer — 1 Position
Key Responsibilities
- Implement and support enterprise CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM).
- Configure and maintain Digital Vault, CPM, PSM and PVWA components.
- Onboard privileged accounts and implement password rotation, reconciliation and verification.
- Configure privileged session management, monitoring and recording.
- Integrate CyberArk with Windows, Linux, Active Directory and enterprise security tools.
- Troubleshoot platform and account management issues.
- Support high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades and security policy implementation.
Essential Experience
- Hands-on CyberArk PAM implementation and engineering.
- Strong knowledge of Vault, CPM, PSM and PVWA.
- Experience with privileged account onboarding and automated credential management.
- Knowledge of Windows/Linux environments, networking and enterprise security controls.
- Experience supporting enterprise PAM deployments.
CyberArk Privilege Cloud, Conjur and Secrets Management experience is desirable.
Contract Terms — All Positions
- Outside IR35 contract
- Fully remote working, with occasional client visits when required
- Minimum initial contract duration of 6 months
- Approximately 2 years of anticipated programme work
- Candidates must be available for technical interviews and able to demonstrate relevant hands-on delivery experience
Number of contractors required: 5 — 2 PKI Architects, 2 SailPoint Engineers and 1 CyberArk Engineer.