Remote Network Security Engineer - Production & Cloud

AXON-Networks; Irvine (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

AXON Networks, headquartered in Irvine, CA, seeks a Network Operations Security Engineer to translate security needs into practical controls across production networks, cloud workloads, and Kubernetes-based services. You will partner with InfoSec, Engineering, DevOps, NOC, and Support to reduce risk without compromising reliability.

This is a fully remote role within North America with visa sponsorship not offered. Annual salary range: $120,000 – $175,000 USD.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in network/infrastructure security engineering, production operations, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or a closely related technical role.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, firewalls, segmentation, access controls, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Practical experience assessing vulnerabilities, CVEs, exposure, risk, remediation planning, and validation; familiarity with vulnerability and cloud security tools.
• Experience with production incidents, change management, rollback planning, operational readiness, and cross-functional engineering coordination.
• Working knowledge of cloud environments, containers/Kubernetes, monitoring/logging, and infrastructure security concepts.
• Ability to communicate technical risk and operational tradeoffs clearly to Engineering, Operations, and Information Security.

Responsibilities

• Act as Security Champion and partner with InfoSec and operational teams.
• Coordinate remediation plans with Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations, and system owners.
• Identify maintenance windows, dependencies, service risks, rollback requirements, and validation steps.
• Review production-impacting designs, releases, and changes for operational security readiness.
• Partner with Change Management and Operational Readiness for secure deployment and post-change validation.
• Improve security alerts, runbooks, escalation paths, and incident response exercises.

Skills

Network security

Cloud security

Incident response

Cross-functional coordination

TCP/IP fundamentals

Tools

Tenable

Qualys

Rapid7

Wiz

Orca

Prisma Cloud

Trivy

SIEM

Python

Bash

Job description

AXON Networks, headquartered in Irvine, CA, seeks a Network Operations Security Engineer to translate security needs into practical controls across production networks, cloud workloads, and Kubernetes-based services. You will partner with InfoSec, Engineering, DevOps, NOC, and Support to reduce risk without compromising reliability.

This is a fully remote role within North America with visa sponsorship not offered. Annual salary range: $120,000 – $175,000 USD.