Remote Lead InfoSec Engineer - LLM Vulnerability Scanning

Eliassen Group; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to implement, operate, and enhance an LLM-based vulnerability detection capability. You will deliver scanners, evaluation harnesses, and CI/CD pipelines and then transition to ongoing operations including patching and feature development.

The role involves a four-person rotating 24/7 schedule, with primary focus on engineering and feature work, and obligations to meet regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of related engineering experience, including hands-on information security or software development work.
• Exposure to AWS Bedrock or equivalent hosted LLM platforms, including model invocation and guardrail configuration.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and ability to build and modify Terraform modules.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably Jenkins, integrated with GitHub.
• Familiarity with application security concepts, common vulnerability classes, and SAST/SCA tooling behavior.
• Clear written and verbal communication of technical status, risks, and blockers to peers and leadership.
• Willingness and availability to work an assigned shift within a rotating 24/7 schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Ability to work independently during off-hours shifts with limited direct supervision.
• Eligible to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Preferred: Hands-on AWS experience including IAM, ECS, and service-to-service authentication. AWS Bedrock model selection and inference optimization.
• Preferred: Agentic or multi-step LLM workflows, including context management across large repositories.
• Preferred: RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Preferred: Splunk development for data onboarding, search, and dashboarding.
• Preferred: Containerized workloads and Linux systems.
• Preferred: Prior 24/7 operational support experience, shift handoff, and runbook execution.
• Preferred: Agile methodologies and development practices.
• Preferred: Regulated financial services environment experience.
• Preferred: Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Security Specialty, or CompTIA Security+.

Responsibilities

• Implement and operate an LLM-based code vulnerability detection capability on AWS Bedrock, including prompt and agent implementation, model invocation patterns, cost and token controls, and result normalization.
• Build and maintain the evaluation harness to measure scanner quality, including regression corpora, repeatable test execution, and reporting on detection performance over time.
• Build and maintain scanning pipelines integrated with GitHub and Jenkins, deployed to ECS and provisioned through Terraform.
• Deliver findings and operational telemetry into Splunk, and build dashboards and alerting for scanner health, coverage, and throughput.
• Engineer and implement well-architected solutions aligned to software development best practices.
• Design, test, and implement solutions at the Story and Feature level within an established architecture.
• Contribute to standards, procedures, runbooks, and guidelines for Information Security operations.
• Provide ongoing operational support, patching, and defect resolution after go-live.
• Participate in a four-person rotating 24/7 shift schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays, averaging 40 hours per week.
• Monitor scanner health, pipeline execution, and alert queues during assigned shifts. Execute documented runbooks and elevate per procedures.
• Perform structured shift handoffs, documenting open issues, in-flight changes, and outstanding escalations.
• Maintain controls and documentation to ensure compliance with company and regulatory requirements.
• Understand virtualization and containerization technologies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

LLM-based security engineering

AWS Bedrock

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub

Jenkins

Splunk dashboards

Vulnerability detection

SAST/SCA tooling

Containerization basics

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Terraform

GitHub

Jenkins

Splunk

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to implement, operate, and enhance an LLM-based vulnerability detection capability. You will deliver scanners, evaluation harnesses, and CI/CD pipelines and then transition to ongoing operations including patching and feature development.

The role involves a four-person rotating 24/7 schedule, with primary focus on engineering and feature work, and obligations to meet regulatory requirements.