Remote ISSE: AWS Security Engineer (Secret)

LMI; United States; Remote; USD 92,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking an Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to design, implement, and validate security controls for AWS infrastructure and mission applications supporting DoD mission partners. The ISSE will engineer secure solutions across development, deployment, and operations.

This remote position requires an active Secret security clearance. Periodic travel may be required for integration, assessments, customer meetings, and access to approved facilities.

Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance, with ability to obtain Top Secret if required.

Responsibilities

• Translate mission needs and security requirements into system architectures, control implementations, secure configurations, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Engineer and implement security controls for AWS infrastructure, Linux systems, containers, Kubernetes, application interfaces, and supporting services in coordination with system owners.
• Configure and validate identity and access controls, least-privilege permissions, network segmentation, encryption, certificates, secrets management, audit logging, and security monitoring.
• Apply STIGs and baselines; test changes for security effectiveness and mission impact.
• Integrate security scanning and checks into CI/CD pipelines, including code, dependency, container-image, secrets, and infrastructure-configuration checks.
• Use scripting, infrastructure as code, and configuration automation to deploy security controls, detect drift, and collect evidence.
• Analyze vulnerability findings, validate applicability, implement fixes, and retest remediation; propose compensating controls when needed.
• Develop and execute security verification tests, support assessments, and troubleshoot issues involving application, network, cloud, identity, and container security controls.
• Produce security diagrams, baselines, and RMF/ATO evidence.
• Coordinate remediation with ISSO/ISSM; document residual risks and recommendations for risk decisions.
• Assess system changes and support incident response and recovery with operations teams.

Skills

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Security architecture

Scripting

CI/CD

Tools

AWS IAM

Kubernetes

Terraform

eMASS

Job description

LMI is seeking an Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to design, implement, and validate security controls for AWS infrastructure and mission applications supporting DoD mission partners. The ISSE will engineer secure solutions across development, deployment, and operations.

This remote position requires an active Secret security clearance. Periodic travel may be required for integration, assessments, customer meetings, and access to approved facilities.