Remote Systems & Security Engineer | SOC 2 & AWS

AVATAR FLEET LLC; Eagle (ID); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AvatarFleet is seeking a Systems & Security Engineer to own security administration, vulnerability management, and infrastructure operations in a predominantly Linux/AWS environment. You will partner with the CTO and software engineers to ensure production reliability, SOC 2 Type II readiness, and secure deployment practices across CI/CD pipelines.

The role focuses on security administration, patching, and governance, with additional responsibilities for production systems, incident response,

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of hands-on Linux systems administration in production environments.
• Strong AWS administration skills (EC2, ECS, IAM, networking, load balancing, storage, WAF, monitoring).
• Experience supporting SOC 2 Type II audits, including evidence collection and remediation tracking.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, AWS CLI, shell scripting, Docker, and Docker Compose.
• Ability to troubleshoot across Linux, AWS, networking, containers, and application runtimes.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day security administration and SOC 2 Type II control execution with CTO and control owners.
• Maintain a year-round control calendar, evidence requirements, remediation commitments, and audit requests.
• Administer access controls, reviews, least privilege, credential management, and security logging.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain AWS resources (EC2, ECS, WAF, ALB, S3, EFS, IAM) and ensure secure configurations.
• Maintain monitoring, backups, incident response, and reliability to support engineering delivery.

Skills

Linux administration

AWS administration

SOC 2 audit experience

Vulnerability management

CI/CD support

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CLI

Docker

Docker Compose

Job description

AvatarFleet is seeking a Systems & Security Engineer to own security administration, vulnerability management, and infrastructure operations in a predominantly Linux/AWS environment. You will partner with the CTO and software engineers to ensure production reliability, SOC 2 Type II readiness, and secure deployment practices across CI/CD pipelines.

The role focuses on security administration, patching, and governance, with additional responsibilities for production systems, incident response,