Remote Information Security Engineer (Contract)

Simplex; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Simplex is seeking a senior Information Security Engineer for a short-term contract to strengthen threat detection, incident response, and cloud security across a healthcare technology platform. This 8-week W2 engagement is remote and open to candidates anywhere in the United States.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, Legal, and senior leadership to evolve security posture, deploy telemetry and response tooling, and support HITRUST, SOC 2, and related

Qualifications

• Senior-level security experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, tune, and maintain detections across cloud, endpoint, network, apps, and containers.
• Investigate and resolve security alerts; lead incident response when needed.
• Document security incidents with root-cause analysis and lessons learned.
• Deploy and support SIEM, EDR, MDR, threat intel, and SOAR platforms.
• Design security controls across cloud, network, and applications.
• Improve vulnerability management, patching, and secrets management.
• Apply AI-first mindset to security automation and threat detection.
• Collaborate with Privacy and Compliance for HITRUST, SOC 2, etc.

Skills

Cloud security

Threat detection

Incident response

SIEM

EDR

MDR

Vulnerability mgmt

Zero Trust

OAuth / SAML

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Cybersecurity

Tools

CrowdStrike

Okta

Datadog

GuardDuty

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Jamf

Island.io

WAF

Firewall

Job description

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 Role

Success 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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