Remote Systems & Security Engineer — SOC 2 Ready

AVATAR FLEET LLC; Michigan; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AvatarFleet is seeking a Systems & Security Engineer to own security administration, Linux/AWS operations, and reliability across our remote infrastructure. You will collaborate with the CTO and software teams to ensure audit readiness, robust monitoring, and secure, scalable deployments.

You will manage EC2/ECS environments, WAF, and CI/CD tooling while maintaining documented controls, access reviews, and incident response processes.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of hands-on Linux systems administration.
• A proven track record in AWS administration, including EC2, ECS, IAM, networking, and security tooling.
• Experience coordinating SOC 2 Type II controls, evidence collection, and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day security administration and infrastructure operations.
• Maintain patched, hardened systems with effective monitoring and backups.
• Support CI/CD configuration and secure deployment practices with engineering teams.
• Automate provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, and scripting.
• Troubleshoot across Linux, AWS, containers, networks, and storage to ensure reliability.

Skills

Linux administration

AWS administration

Security auditing

Incident response

Terraform

CI/CD support

Python scripting

Containerization

Monitoring

Communication

Tools

Docker

Docker Compose

AWS CLI

Jira

Sentry

Job description

AvatarFleet is seeking a Systems & Security Engineer to own security administration, Linux/AWS operations, and reliability across our remote infrastructure. You will collaborate with the CTO and software teams to ensure audit readiness, robust monitoring, and secure, scalable deployments.

You will manage EC2/ECS environments, WAF, and CI/CD tooling while maintaining documented controls, access reviews, and incident response processes.