PKI Security Analyst

Role Value Proposition

MetLife is searching for an enthusiastic, passionate, and recognized individual to help make an impactful difference in an industry-leading company. You’ll play a critical role in our Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for our global key management initiatives. You will execute critical security operations activities - incident response, vulnerability management, analysis, event management, and recovery. This hands-on position requires strong global collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams to engineer and support key management solutions that comply with MetLife’s security policies and regulatory obligations. The candidate will have the ability to influence, document, and implement PKI security safeguards and configurations in a complex environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Implementation and support of all key management areas, including SSL certificates, SSH keys, and other digital certificates and encryption.
• Support discovery, monitoring, alerting, and analysis for PKI and underlying infrastructure.
• Maintain documentation related to the key management practice, including areas of design, proof of concept use cases, implementation, validation, operational management, and disaster recovery.
• Evaluate current global and technology-specific processes to determine process improvements, and how best to gain more effectiveness and efficiency
• Maintain and enhance technical requirements for implementation and adoption of a best-in-class PKI within MetLife.
• Communicate PKI security & encryption policy and implementations.
  
  

Required

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, IT Security, or equivalent work experience.
• 2-4 years of work experience with combined IT security and PKI operations.
• Working experience with AI (Copilot, Claude, etc.)
• Solid knowledge of network and web-related protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, TLS, secure communication protocols).
• Good organizational and communication skills
  
  

Preferred

• Experience with Certificate Lifecycle Management tools (CyberArk/Venafi preferred).
• Skills with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, and Bash.
• Experience using AI tools to drive automation and efficiency.
• Experience with enterprise deployment tools (Tanium preferred).
• Competency with Linux/Unix and Windows operating systems.
• Experience with x509 certificate signer tools (Microsoft CA preferred).
• Moderate knowledge of modern security architectures, their challenges, common approaches to overcome their challenges, and their inherent security strengths and weaknesses.
• Experience with cloud native key management is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• High level of initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness, and collaboration.
  
  

At MetLife, we’re leading the global transformation of an industry we’ve long defined. United in purpose, diverse in perspective, we’re dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our customers.