Description

Job Title: Cloud Security Engineer

We’re looking for a Cloud Security Engineer (Contract) to support our growing platform and security needs. This role will be crucial in helping us maintain secure and auditable infrastructure across our AWS environments. If you’re passionate about infrastructure security, compliance, and automation—and you’re fluent in AWS and Terraform—we’d love to connect.

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What You’ll Do

Security Operations

• Respond to vulnerabilities across our platform and support CI security efforts
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure remediation efforts are properly tracked and executed
• Drive improvements in our detection and alerting capabilities

Compliance + Auditing

• Help implement Compliance as Code strategies to automate and prove security best practices
• Support ongoing audit efforts by helping us track and document routes, access, and activities across the platform
• Coordinate with engineers to perform scans and remediations
• Implement comprehensive logging and audit trails (access logs, system logs, application logs, etc.)

We are looking for someone who:

• Has strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and Terraform
• Understands modern cloud security practices and threat modeling
• Has familiarity with CI/CD security
• Can translate compliance requirements into actionable engineering work
• Is organized and great at collaborating with both internal and external teams

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Compliance as Code tools (e.g., Open Policy Agent, InSpec, or similar)
• Prior experience working in startups or fast-paced environments

What You’ll Receive:

• Hourly Rate $100-$125/hr
• Remote first team
• Opportunity to work with a mission-driven company full of change-makers

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