Principal Technical Development Toolkit Specialist - Ottawa - Entrust

Description

Principal Technical Development Toolkit Specialist

Entrust is seeking a Principal Technical Development Toolkit Specialist who is passionate about helping customers succeed with our Toolkits and APIs, which integrate with our PKI and Identity Solutions. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex challenges and enjoys working directly with customers to deliver secure, high‑impact solutions.

Position Overview

As a member of our collaborative team, including product managers, developers, QA engineers, and technical support, you'll play a key role in ensuring our customers deploy and integrate our technologies successfully. You'll be at the intersection of innovation, software design, and cybersecurity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead advanced technical troubleshooting and customer support initiatives.
• Design and develop sample applications utilizing Entrust Toolkits.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of SOAP/REST APIs and ITIL frameworks within SaaS environments.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with DevOps, Product Management, and R&D teams.
• Ensure escalations to R&D are complete, actionable, and well‑documented.
• Create and maintain custom tools to support customer deployments and internal processes; deliver training as needed.
• Monitor, track, and analyze customer issues to identify trends and drive product and process improvements.
• Provide detailed product feedback informed by customer interactions and use cases.
• Assess and analyze security vulnerabilities, delivering in‑depth technical evaluations.
• Act as a key technical liaison during critical or major Cloud Service incidents, working closely with R&D and DevOps.

Basic Requirements

• Experience with enterprise security product implementations.
• Demonstrated success in developing high‑quality software solutions, with expertise in Java and REST APIs. C/C++ is an asset but not essential.
• Strong service delivery and communication skills.
• Ability to influence across teams and levels.
• Customer service orientation.
• Willingness to travel as needed.
• Must have unrestricted authorization to work in Canada.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
• 3+ years' experience with PKI concepts and practices.
• Knowledge of SSL certificates, smart‑cards/tokens, HSMs, PKCS #11.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
• Experience with web servers and application servers.
• Knowledge of LDAP, X.500 directory servers, and Active Directory.
• Knowledge of application frameworks and web services development.
• Familiarity with X.509 standards, CMP, PKCS #7, S/MIME and SSL.
• Networking and deep packet analysis.

About Entrust

Our growing company relies on curious, dedicated and innovative colleagues to anticipate the future and provide solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure world. Entrust technologies and expertise help government agencies, enterprises and financial institutions in more than 150 countries serve and safeguard citizens, employees and consumers. Each year, our solutions secure billions of transactions — and every day, our technologies issue and manage more than 10 million secure identities. Together, we create solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure life.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Entrust Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

Compensation Range

The pay range for this position is $90,000 - $132,000 per year. This position is also eligible for the company's discretionary annual incentive plan. Actual compensation will be determined based on education, skills and experience. In addition to your pay, Entrust offers eligible colleagues and their dependents comprehensive benefits, vacation, paid time off and paid holidays.

Recruiter

Grace Rusingiza

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