Remote Linux & Cloud Security Engineer

AVATAR FLEET LLC; Texas; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AvatarFleet is seeking a Systems & Security Engineer to own security administration, vulnerability management, and AWS-based infrastructure. You’ll work with the CTO and software teams to ensure production reliability, SOC 2 Type II readiness, and compliant operations while supporting CI/CD and engineering deployments.

Responsibilities include patching, hardening, monitoring, incident response, and documentation to keep customers audit-ready and applications available.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of hands-on Linux systems administration with security and availability responsibility in production.
• SaaS experience is preferred.
• Strong AWS administration skills across EC2, ECS, IAM, networking, load balancing, storage, WAF, and monitoring.
• Experience supporting SOC 2 Type II audits, including evidence collection and remediation tracking.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day security administration and SOC 2 Type II control execution with the CTO and control owners.
• Maintain a year-round control calendar and audit evidence.
• Maintain security policies reflecting actual practices and drive corrective action.
• Administer access controls and support least privilege, credential management, and security logging.

Skills

Linux systems administration

AWS administration

SOC 2 audits

Vulnerability management

Patch management

CI/CD support

Incident response

Documentation & runbooks

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CLI

Docker

Docker Compose

Job description

AvatarFleet is seeking a Systems & Security Engineer to own security administration, vulnerability management, and AWS-based infrastructure. You’ll work with the CTO and software teams to ensure production reliability, SOC 2 Type II readiness, and compliant operations while supporting CI/CD and engineering deployments.

Responsibilities include patching, hardening, monitoring, incident response, and documentation to keep customers audit-ready and applications available.