New York Life Insurance Co

Corporate Vice President - Enterprise PKI & Cryptographic Engineering

New York Life Insurance Co$147K — $211K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in PKI, cryptographic engineering, or security engineering with enterprise PKI responsibility.
  • Deep experience with Microsoft AD CS and certificate authority environments.
  • Strong understanding of X.509, TLS/mTLS, and cryptographic key management.
  • Familiarity with automating certificate lifecycle processes using APIs, PowerShell, or Python.
  • Experience with HSMs and cloud key-management services.
  • Excellent communication skills for explaining complex concepts to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Design and modernize enterprise PKI services and trust hierarchies.
  • Engineer Microsoft AD CS including CA configuration and certificate templates.
  • Drive Certificate Lifecycle Management from manual to automated processes.
  • Develop self-service certificate APIs and integrate with existing tools.
  • Engineer HSM/KMS backed CA services including disaster recovery.
  • Serve as PKI expert for security review processes and technical recommendations.
  • Define resiliency and incident response procedures for PKI infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including leave programs and adoption assistance.
  • Student loan repayment programs available.
  • Ongoing refinement and addition of benefits based on employee feedback.
Full Job Description
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter

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The Corporate Vice President - Enterprise PKI & Cryptographic Engineering is a senior, hands-on technical leader accountable for the architecture, engineering, and modernization of New York Life's enterprise Public Key Infrastructure, certificate lifecycle, and cryptographic services across data center, cloud (AWS, Azure, and GCP), applications, devices, workloads, and non-human identities. This is a builder role, not a purely advisory one: you'll move from architecture into hands-on design, automation, and production delivery.

You'll own PKI and certificate lifecycle automation end to end, serve as the CISO organization's PKI and cryptographic subject matter expert for the Security Review Board and IS Exception process, and help position NYL for cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness.

What You'll Do:
• Design, engineer, and modernize enterprise PKI services and trust hierarchies - offline root CAs, issuing/subordinate CAs, and cloud-native issuance - spanning users, applications, devices, workloads, APIs, and non-human identities.
• Engineer and administer Microsoft AD CS, including CA configuration, certificate templates, auto-enrollment, trust chains, CRLs, OCSP, and recovery capabilities.
• Own Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM): drive discovery, inventory, issuance, renewal, revocation, and reporting from fragmented manual processes toward centralized, policy-driven automation.
• Build automation and reusable, self-service certificate APIs using ACME, SCEP, EST, REST, PowerShell, and Python; integrate with ServiceNow, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and DevOps tooling.
• Engineer HSM/KMS backed CA and signing services, including key ceremonies, backup, rotation, access control, and disaster recovery, across on-prem and cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Serve as the PKI and cryptographic engineering subject-matter expert for the Security Review Board and Architecture Review Board, and provide authoritative technical risk recommendations on IS Exception requests.
• Maintain strong knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID where they intersect with certificate services, certificate-based authentication, device identity, Conditional Access, and Privileged Identity Management.
• Maintain the enterprise cryptographic inventory and drive cryptographic agility, short-lived certificates, and post-quantum migration readiness.
• Treat PKI as business critical infrastructure: define resiliency, monitoring, and recovery procedures, and lead incident response and root-cause analysis for certificate, key, and trust failures.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for complex production certificate, trust, and cryptographic issues, translating decisions into reusable enterprise patterns.

What You'll Bring:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive, hands-on experience in PKI, cryptographic engineering, identity engineering, or security engineering, with significant responsibility for enterprise PKI environments.
• Deep hands-on experience engineering or operating enterprise certificate authority environments, including Microsoft AD CS, certificate templates, trust chains, CRLs, and OCSP.
• Strong understanding of X.509, TLS/mTLS, certificate enrollment, revocation, trust models, and cryptographic key management.
• Experience implementing or operating an enterprise CLM platform and automating certificate lifecycle processes with ACME, SCEP, EST, REST APIs, PowerShell, or Python.
• Experience with certificate discovery and inventory across complex enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with HSMs, KMS platforms, private-key protection, or cloud key-management services.
• Experience integrating PKI with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), APIs, DevOps pipelines, service meshes, and workload identity patterns.
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, particularly where they intersect with PKI, certificate-based authentication, device identity, or non-human identity.
• Ability to conduct deep technical security reviews, identify material PKI and cryptographic risks, and define practical remediation or compensating controls.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex PKI and cryptographic risk to engineers, architects, governance bodies, auditors, vendors, and senior leaders.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with enterprise CLM platforms such as Venafi, AppViewX, Keyfactor, or DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager.
• Experience modernizing Microsoft AD CS or migrating toward managed private CA or PKI-as-a-Service.
• Experience with cloud PKI technologies such as AWS Private CA, Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service, or Azure Key Vault/Cloud PKI.
• Experience integrating certificate lifecycle capabilities with ServiceNow or similar workflow platforms.
• Experience with code signing, S/MIME, device certificates, Kubernetes certificate management, or service-mesh mTLS.
• Experience with cryptographic inventory, cryptographic-agility programs, or post-quantum migration initiatives.
• Experience implementing Microsoft's Enterprise Access Model, Tier 0 protections, or privileged-access modernization.
• Prior experience supporting a Security Review Board, Architecture Review Board, or IS Exception process; financial services or other regulated enterprise experience; relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or a cloud security credential).

Job Level: LEVELPF5

Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $147,500-$211,000

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Job Requisition ID: 94809

About New York Life Insurance Co

New York Life Insurance Company is a mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the life insurers in the world, ranking #88 on the 2014 Fortune 500 list with over $540 billion in total assets under management, and more than $19 billion in surplus and AVR. New York Life and its subsidiaries provide insurance, investment, and retirement solutions. For 175 years, the company has been helping people put their love into action. It was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in New York.

New York Life Insurance Co Careers

Join the esteemed team at New York Life Insurance Co, a leader in the insurance industry, and propel your career to new heights with unparalleled job opportunities. As one of the most respected names in life insurance, we offer a platform where professionalism meets innovation, creating an environment ripe for personal and professional growth.

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At New York Life Insurance Co, you will be part of a culture that cherishes diversity and fosters leadership. Our team is composed of skilled professionals dedicated to providing financial security and peace of mind to our clients. By joining us, you will collaborate with top-tier experts in finance and insurance, leveraging your skills to make a meaningful impact.

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