Remote Senior App & Cloud Security Engineer (AI-Driven)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 106,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

1099 contract

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Senior Application and Cloud Security Engineer Consultant for a remote healthcare technology modernization program. This hands-on role requires assessing applications and AWS architecture, designing practical controls, and guiding engineering teams in implementing them.

The position emphasizes AI-forward delivery, with daily use of coding agents while maintaining human ownership of correctness, security, testing, and production readiness.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in application, cloud, platform, or product security.
• Strong secure-design judgment across APIs, web applications, services, data flows, secrets, authentication, authorization, logging, and failure modes.
• Hands-on AWS security experience with IAM, workload identities, VPC controls, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and related services.
• Zero Trust and identity experience, including least privilege, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SAML, MFA, RBAC or permission-based authorization, and privileged-access patterns.
• Application-security testing and remediation experience using threat modeling, SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, and CI/CD guardrails.
• Ability to use AI coding agents to accelerate security work while protecting sensitive data and preserving human review.
• Excellent client-facing communication, requirements discovery, and the ability to turn findings into prioritized implementation work.
• Healthcare, pharmacy, HIPAA, PHI, or other regulated-data experience is preferred.
• Must have an active LLC or S-Corp. This is 1099 Corp-to-Corp only; no W-2.

Responsibilities

• Review application and AWS architectures, identify priority risks, and produce clear remediation guidance.
• Implement security guardrails, identity controls, cloud configuration improvements, and CI/CD checks.
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders to balance risk reduction, delivery speed, operability, and cost.
• Use AI coding agents to accelerate implementation while preserving evidence, testing, and accountability.

Skills

Security design

AWS security

Zero Trust

Threat modeling

SAST/DAST

CI/CD security

AI coding agents

Client-facing

Healthcare data

Active LLC/S-Corp

Tools

IAM

KMS

Secrets Manager

GuardDuty

Security Hub

CloudTrail

Config

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Senior Application and Cloud Security Engineer Consultant for a remote healthcare technology modernization program. This hands-on role requires assessing applications and AWS architecture, designing practical controls, and guiding engineering teams in implementing them.

The position emphasizes AI-forward delivery, with daily use of coding agents while maintaining human ownership of correctness, security, testing, and production readiness.