Security Engineer

Duration: 12+ months | Compensation: $75–85/hr W2 | Location: Remote with 30% client travel (reimbursed)

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy scalable cloud security solutions that address complex customer requirements across regulated and public-sector environments.
• Own security engineering projects from strategy and design through coding, testing, launch and ongoing support.
• Evaluate security risks, conduct security assessments and design reviews, and apply threat-modeling practices.
• Develop production code, reusable assets, reference architectures, automation and security best practices.
• Define long-term security strategies and roadmaps for complex infrastructure and security challenges.
• Partner with customers and cross-functional teams to influence security designs, risk decisions and project outcomes.
• Implement automated deployment practices using CI/CD, GitOps, Terraform or Ansible.

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government TS/SCI security clearance required.
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale systems architecture, distributed systems or global infrastructure deployment.
• Experience with operating systems, software-defined networking, identity and access management and/or Kubernetes.
• 2+ years of security engineering, computer security, network security and security-protocol experience.
• 5+ years of coding experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages.
• Hands-on experience securing solutions on GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Experience delivering security solutions through design, coding, configuration and deployment.
• Knowledge of threat modeling, incident response and frameworks such as NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, ITSG-33, C5, ISM or ISO.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible and deployment models such as CI/CD and GitOps.