AI Developer Security Scanning

Tekshapers; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekshapers is seeking an AI Developer Security Scanning specialist to design and operate an LLM-based code vulnerability detection capability on AWS Bedrock. This remote, full-time role expects about 40 hours/week across a rotating 24/7 schedule.

You will build evaluation harnesses, scanning pipelines integrated with GitHub and Jenkins, deployed to ECS and provisioned through Terraform, and deliver telemetry to Splunk with dashboards and alerts for health and throughput.

Qualifications

• 2 years of related engineering experience.
• Exposure to AWS Bedrock or equivalent hosted LLM platforms.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code best practices and Terraform modules.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably Jenkins, integrated with GitHub.
• Familiarity with application security concepts, SAST/SCA tooling behavior.
• Able to communicate technical status, risks, and blockers clearly in writing and verbally.
• Willingness and availability to work an assigned shift within a rotating 24/7 schedule.
• Able to work independently during off-hours shifts with limited supervision.
• Eligible to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Implement and operate an LLM-based code vulnerability scanner on AWS Bedrock.
• Build and maintain an evaluation harness for scanner quality.
• Create scanning pipelines with GitHub and Jenkins deployed to ECS via Terraform.
• Deliver telemetry to Splunk with dashboards and alerts for scanner health, coverage, and throughput.
• Apply software engineering best practices in design and implementation.
• Design at Story and Feature level within the existing architecture.
• Develop and maintain standards, runbooks, and guidelines for security operations.
• Provide ongoing patching and defect resolution post go-live.
• Participate in a rotating 24/7 shift schedule (avg 40 hours/week).
• Monitor scanner health and pipeline execution; perform shift handoffs.
• Maintain controls and documentation for regulatory compliance.
• Understand virtualization/containerization technologies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Info security engineering

AWS Bedrock exposure

Terraform / IaC

Jenkins / GitHub CI/CD

SAST/SCA tooling knowledge

Communication skills

24/7 shift availability

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub

Splunk

ECS

Job description

AI Developer Security Scanning

Location -- Remote

Full-time

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Implement and operate an LLM-based code vulnerability detection capability on AWS Bedrock, including prompt/agent implementation, model invocation patterns, cost and token controls, and result normalization.
2. Build and maintain the evaluation harness used to measure scanner quality, including regression corpora, repeatable test execution, and reporting on detection performance over time.
3. Build and maintain scanning pipelines integrated with GitHub and Jenkins, deployed to ECS and provisioned through Terraform.
4. Deliver findings and operational telemetry into Splunk; build dashboards and alerting for scanner health, coverage, and throughput.
5. Engineer and implement well-architected solutions while adhering to software development best practices.
6. Design, test, and implement solutions at the Story and Feature level within an established architecture.
7. Contribute to the development and maintenance of standards, procedures, runbooks, and guidelines necessary to satisfy the Information Security department's operations.
8. Provide ongoing operational support, patching, and defect resolution for the deployed scanner after go-live.
9. Participate in a four-person rotating shift schedule providing 24/7 coverage, including nights, weekends, and holidays. Scheduled hours average 40 per week.
10. Monitor scanner health, pipeline execution, and alert queues during assigned shift; execute documented runbooks and elevate per established procedures.
11. Perform structured shift handoff, including documentation of open issues, in-flight changes, and outstanding escalations.
12. Maintain appropriate controls and documentation to ensure compliance with all company and regulatory requirements.
13. Understand virtualization/containerization technologies.
14. Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

1. 2 years of related engineering experience, including hands-on information security or software development work.
2. Exposure to AWS Bedrock or equivalent hosted LLM platforms, including model invocation and guardrail configuration.
3. Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code best practices and ability to build and modify Terraform modules.
4. Experience working within CI/CD pipelines, preferably Jenkins, integrated with GitHub.
5. Familiarity with application security concepts, common vulnerability classes, and SAST/SCA tooling behavior.
6. Able to communicate technical status, risks, and blockers clearly in writing and verbally to technical peers and leadership.
7. Willingness and availability to work an assigned shift within a rotating 24/7 schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
8. Able to work independently during off-hours shifts with limited direct supervision.
9. Eligible to work in the US without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

1. Hands-on experience building on AWS, including IAM, ECS, and service-to-service authentication patterns.
2. Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock, including model selection and inference optimization.
3. Experience with agentic or multi-step LLM workflows, including context management across large repositories.
4. Experience with RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures.
5. Splunk development experience, including data onboarding, search, and dashboarding.
6. Experience with containerized workloads and Linux systems.
7. Prior experience supporting a 24/7 operational environment, including shift handoff and runbook execution.
8. Experience working in Agile methodologies and development.
9. Prior experience in a regulated financial services environment.
10. Industry standard certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Security Specialty, or CompTIA Security .

Tekshapers is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.