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: $60–75/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. You'll partner closely with Infrastructure, Engineering, Product, Privacy, Compliance, Legal, and senior leadership in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What You'll 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.
• Bachelor's 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 Island.io 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 client's ability to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to threats, while making secure development practices easier for engineering teams to adopt.

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