Remote Systems & Security Engineer — SOC 2 & AWS

AVATAR FLEET LLC; Michigan; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AvatarFleet Systems & Security Engineer role focuses on Linux and AWS administration, security controls, and reliable production systems. You will partner with the CTO and engineering teams to maintain uptime, implement SOC 2 Type II controls, and automate provisioning and deployments.

You will manage ECS, WAF, ALB, S3, EFS, and monitoring while driving secure configurations, incident response, and cost-effective optimizations across remote production environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on Linux systems administration with security focus.
• Strong AWS administration skills across EC2, ECS, networking, and storage.
• Experience with SOC 2 Type II audits, evidence collection, and remediation tracking.
• Proficient in Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tooling; able to automate provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Administer Linux hosts, AWS resources, and production services with high availability.
• Own security administration, patching, mitigations, and incident response efforts.
• Maintain monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery for uptime and compliance.
• Collaborate on CI/CD pipelines, environment config, secrets management, and deployments.

Skills

Linux admin

AWS & ECS

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Docker Compose

Python scripting

JavaScript

Vue.js

Flask

Sentry

Jira

PostgreSQL

Redis

SOC 2

Security auditing

Tools

Terraform

AWS CLI

GitHub Actions

Job description

AvatarFleet Systems & Security Engineer role focuses on Linux and AWS administration, security controls, and reliable production systems. You will partner with the CTO and engineering teams to maintain uptime, implement SOC 2 Type II controls, and automate provisioning and deployments.

You will manage ECS, WAF, ALB, S3, EFS, and monitoring while driving secure configurations, incident response, and cost-effective optimizations across remote production environments.