Security Platform Engineer (Site Reliability)

Motion Recruitment; Woodbridge Township (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Security-Focused Platform Engineer in Woodbridge Township, NJ. This mid-senior level role involves maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure and services while implementing security controls in the deployment practices. Candidates should have experience in container orchestration and be adept at monitoring system health. This contract position is crucial for ensuring operational reliability and security within infrastructure engineering.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining scalable and secure infrastructure.
• Background in container orchestration and cloud security.
• Ability to identify and remediate configuration drift.
• Knowledge of high availability and secure deployment practices.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and security controls.
• Ability to monitor system health and enforce runtime policies.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders on secure service mesh, events, and API gateways.

Responsibilities

• Maintain secure and scalable infrastructure and services.
• Manage container orchestration and cloud security.
• Monitor for configuration drift and enforce infrastructure policies.
• Support high availability and secure deployment practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on secure service mesh and API gateways.
• Monitor system health and enforce runtime policies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on secure service mesh, events, and API gateways.

Skills

Maintaining scalable and secure infrastructure

Container orchestration

Cloud security

Configuration drift remediation

Infrastructure-as-code

System health monitoring

Collaborating on service mesh and API gateways

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Service mesh

API Gateway

Cloud security tools

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a Security-Focused Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to maintain secure, scalable infrastructure and services. This role is responsible for ensuring operational reliability while embedding security into all aspects of infrastructure and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Maintain secure and scalable infrastructure and services.
• Manage container orchestration and cloud security.
• Monitor for configuration drift and enforce infrastructure policies.
• Support high availability and secure deployment and operations practices.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code with security controls.
• Monitor system health and enforce runtime policies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on secure service mesh, events, and API gateways.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining scalable and secure infrastructure.
• Background in container orchestration and cloud security.
• Ability to identify and remediate configuration drift.
• Knowledge of high availability and secure deployment practices.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and security controls.
• Ability to monitor system health and enforce runtime policies.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders on secure service mesh, events, and API gateways.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology and Engineering

Industries

• Information Services
• Banking, and Financial Services

Location: Iselin, NJ