Information System Security Engineer (AWS)

Location: Remote, United States; periodic travel may be required, and classified work must be performed in approved facilities.

Salary: $92,075–$158,138.

Company

hirify.global provides digital solutions, commercial-grade platforms, and mission-ready AI for federal agencies across defense, space, healthcare, and energy.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and validate security controls for AWS infrastructure, Linux systems, containers, Kubernetes, applications, and supporting services.
• Translate mission requirements into secure architectures, configurations, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation.
• Perform threat modeling and security design reviews covering trust boundaries, attack surfaces, data flows, dependencies, and technical risks.
• Configure IAM, least-privilege access, network segmentation, encryption, certificates, secrets management, logging, and monitoring.
• Automate security controls and checks across CI/CD pipelines using scripting, infrastructure as code, and configuration automation.
• Analyze vulnerabilities, implement and retest remediation, support assessments and incident response, and produce evidence for RMF and ATO activities.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance if required; eligibility for a U.S. Government clearance requires U.S. citizenship.
• At least five years of relevant systems security, cybersecurity, cloud security, or secure platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience implementing, troubleshooting, and validating security controls; policy or compliance documentation alone is insufficient.
• Experience securing DoD information systems, including systems operating on or connected to DODIN.
• Hands-on professional experience implementing, securing, operating, and troubleshooting AWS workloads, including personally implemented controls and validated remediation.
• Practical AWS experience with IAM, VPC, security groups, compute and storage security, encryption, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience hardening and troubleshooting Linux and containerized workloads, with working knowledge of Kubernetes security controls.
• Experience with scripting, infrastructure as code or configuration management, source control, and software delivery pipelines.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, network segmentation, secure application connectivity, certificates, encryption, and identity and access management.
• Experience applying RMF, NIST SP 800-53, STIGs, vulnerability scanning, remediation, and authorization evidence practices.
• Current relevant cybersecurity certification and ability to meet applicable contractual and DoD 8140 workforce requirements.
• Strong technical writing, troubleshooting, coordination, independent work, distributed-team collaboration, and periodic travel capability. A college degree is not required.

Nice to have

• AWS GovCloud or EKS experience supporting DoD Impact Level 4, 5, or 6 workloads.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Helm, policy as code, hardened container images, SBOMs, artifact signing, or automated security evidence collection.
• Experience with Zero Trust, Common Access Card authentication, DoD PKI, or secure interfaces between approved mission environments.
• Experience supporting eMASS or another government authorization system.
• Experience with Special Operations Forces, combatant commands, mission software, AI-enabled platforms, or robotics and autonomous systems.
• CISSP, ISSEP, CCSP, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, cloud security, or another advanced technical certification.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with periodic travel for integration, assessments, customer meetings, and approved-facility access.
• Work with distributed engineering teams supporting federal missions.
• Focus on innovation, agility, collaboration, and rapid delivery of mission-ready technology.