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    CaylentIT Services · 101-1,000BeachScore 76%

    Security Engineer

    EngineeringMidFull-timePosted 1mo ago
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    Salary

    $120,000 - $180,000 (Est.)

    Atlas estimate for this role

    Location

    Work from anywhere

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    Time zone

    Not specified on the listing

    Posted

    Sep 23, 2026

    Verified Nov 3, 2026 by Jeff

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    About the role

    Caylent is seeking a Security Engineer to review and conduct regular security and vulnerability assessments leveraging automated and non-automated methods on cloud-based and mobile workloads.

    The role involves identifying technical security requirements, reviewing security architecture, and advising project teams on mitigation strategies to control risk.

    What you'll do

    • Identify and advise on technical security requirements, review and approve security architecture and control implementations.
    • Develop and tune automated tests and rules using AWS tools such as Inspector, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Lambda, and Security Hub.
    • Identify, engineer, and build/update/integrate new and existing security tooling.
    • Design vulnerability scans of cloud-based and mobile applications and infrastructure.
    • Build automated and self-service capabilities that validate application security and compliance status.
    • Research and identify best practices to harden and secure cloud workloads including containers and Kubernetes clusters at scale.
    • Coordinate the work of junior team members performing routine and non-routine tasks.
    • Develop and perform developer-focused training and support the SecOps on-call team for incident response.

    What they're looking for

    • Experience conducting regular security and vulnerability assessments.
    • Ability to monitor and audit security implementations.
    • Proficiency with AWS security tools including Inspector, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Lambda, and Security Hub.
    • Knowledge of hardening cloud workloads, containers, and Kubernetes clusters.
    • Capability to assist development teams in defining application threat models.

    From the company page

    Caylent benefits

    Work from anywhereUnlimited vacationComprehensive benefitsWorkspace stipendPaid learning stipendsRetirementEquity in companyLaptop providedPaid holidays

    ◉ Remote policy · in their words

    “Employees sit at the heart of our business and thrive in our fast-paced, distributed work environment that has been 100% remote since 2015.”

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