Senior Security Engineer
Brightline
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $145,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSJamfPythonSplunkTerraform
About the role
- Expand and improve the use of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to manage and enforce AWS security controls.
- Implement and audit IAM policies to ensure secure and compliant access.
- Make the secure path the simplest and most intuitive for engineers.
- Own and enhance the organization’s secrets management lifecycle.
- Automate credential rotation to minimize risk exposure.
- Lead incident response readiness drills to ensure organizational preparedness.
- Partner with developers to integrate security more deeply into the product lifecycle.
- Optimize GitHub Advanced Security to detect and prevent vulnerabilities.
- Automate security feedback and controls within the CI/CD pipeline.
- Define and evolve architectural strategy for security services (Crowdstrike, JAMF, Cloudflare).
- Build API-driven integrations to enable automation and advanced response capabilities.
- Serve as the primary technical liaison with the managed SOC (Deepwatch).
- Ensure integrity of log data into Splunk and translate findings into actionable internal remediation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a hands-on security engineering role, ideally within both regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, fintech) and startup environments.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and a passion for managing security through auditable, repeatable code.
- Deep practical knowledge of AWS security principles and IAM, with experience managing them programmatically.
- Proficiency in a scripting language (e.g., Python) to build security automation and API integrations.
- Solid understanding of application security and experience with tools like GitHub Advanced Security.
- Proven experience enhancing secrets management programs and automating credential lifecycles.
- Familiarity with modern security tools such as EDR (Crowdstrike), WAF (Cloudflare), and JAMF.
- Experience with Okta as an identity platform and Gsuite administration, with an eye toward streamlining both.
- Interest in updating and laying the foundation for future AI integrations and scaling security capabilities across AWS and other technical stacks.
- Comfort operating as a thought leader, selecting the right tooling for scale and advising on enterprise-grade infrastructure.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, and 401k
- 12 Company Holidays + Floating Holidays, Holiday Shutdown, Flexible Time Off, Parental Leave
- Health and Wellness Stipend, Home Office Reimbursement and Professional Development Reimbursement
- Stock Options
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Hard skills
Infrastructure as CodeTerraformAWS security principlesIAM policiesscripting languagePythonapplication securityAPI integrationssecrets managementcredential automation
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingthought leadership