Remote Information Security Engineer (Contract)

Information Security Engineer (Contract)

Location:100% Remote based anywhere in the US

Type: Short-term W2 contract about 8 weeks with potential for extensionPay Rate: $6075/hr

About the Role

Our client a growing healthcare technology company is seeking a senior Information Security Engineer for a short-term contract engagement. The company operates in a highly regulated environment: it is HIPAA compliant is pursuing HITRUST certification has SOC 2 in progress and may pursue FedRAMP/GovRAMP. A strong security foundation is already in place. This role will maintain and evolve that posture by strengthening detection operations incident response cloud security and secure development practices.

This is a hands-on role for an experienced professional who can make an impact from day one. Youll partner closely with Infrastructure Engineering Product Privacy Compliance Legal and senior leadership in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

What Youll Do

• Develop tune and maintain threat detections across cloud endpoint network application and container environments.
• Investigate prioritize and resolve security alerts and initiate and coordinate incident response when appropriate.
• Scope contain eradicate and document security incidents including root-cause analysis forensics postmortems and lessons learned.
• Deploy and support security telemetry and response platforms including SIEM EDR NDR MDR threat intelligence and SOAR tools.
• Design and implement security controls across cloud network and application layers.
• Improve vulnerability management vulnerability scanning secrets management patching and security-control maintenance.
• Apply an AI-first mindset to security automation and threat detection.
• Partner with Privacy and Compliance to document and monitor security practices in support of HITRUST SOC 2 and other compliance initiatives.

What You Bring

• Senior-level security experience. You can jump in immediately and work independently with minimal ramp-up.
• 3 years of hands-on cloud security experience. AWS is required.
• Experience with SIEM EDR MDR vulnerability scanning secrets management and security-automation tools.
• Strong knowledge of vulnerabilities exploits threat detection and incident-response techniques.
• Understanding of authentication protocols and frameworks such as OAuth SSO/SAML and OpenID Connect.
• Experience with Zero Trust architectures.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks including HITRUST NIST and ISO.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and see work through to completion.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity or a related field or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience with CrowdStrike Okta KnowBe4 Datadog GuardDuty CloudWatch/CloudTrail Trusted Advisor WAF and firewall configuration Jamf and enterprise browser.
• Certifications such as CISSP AWS Security Specialty AWS Cloud Practitioner CompTIA Network SC-900 or AZ-900 or equivalent experience.

Success in This RoleSuccess means improving our clients ability to prevent detect investigate and respond to threats while making secure development practices easier for engineering teams to adopt.

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