Certification Specialist

As a Certification Specialist, you are responsible for formal PCI PTS HSM certifications for the Utimaco Information Security (IS) products. You are also responsible for maintaining and improving the payment certification strategy.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the responsible assessors and certification authorities, as well as with colleagues from software development and product management;
• Identify, pursue, and access security requirements for PCI PTS HSM approvals;
• Being responsible for the successful certification and sustainable security architecture of our IS product lines;
• Further develop the holistic governmental data security approval strategy;
• Collaborate with the rest of the certification team to further certify data security products according to Common Criteria, FIPS, PCI, and other certification schemes;
• Assist in developing a strategy to enable Utimaco to process more certifications efficiently within an agreed timeframe, utilizing also onsite regional presence;
• Actively support the team to meet all commitments and deadlines;

Qualifications

• You have a University degree in Technical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent;
• You have a track record of successfully leading PCI PTS HSM approvals, Common Criteria, or FIPS 140-3 approval projects with approval bodies through the full project lifecycle – specification to delivery;
• You are experienced in security architectural design;
• You are experienced in Certification Lab and Customer communication on complex certification topics;
• You have experience in writing technical documentation, system security architecture documents, functional specifications and process descriptions/workflows; ideally operated in the Information Technology sector at a product manufacturer as a developer or architect;
• You have excellent verbal & written communication and presentation skills in English/German;

Benefits

• An open and friendly corporate culture characterized by constructive and collaborative interaction;
• We provide you with support for your future plans with a company pension scheme (depending on country‑specific circumstances);
• Early risers and night owls – thanks to a flexible working model you can organise your working day yourself;
• We also support you privately – benefit from special payments or additional vacation days on anniversaries or other special occasions;
• Utimaco is growing and living diversity! Our global team includes colleagues from 42 nationalities and 45 different languages spoken;

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