Senior Systems & Security Engineer - Remote AWS Infra

AVATAR FLEET LLC; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AvatarFleet LLC is seeking a Systems & Security Engineer to join a fully remote team. You will own security administration, Linux systems, and AWS infrastructure, collaborating with the CTO and software engineers to ensure production reliability and audit readiness.

The role emphasizes patching, hardening, monitoring, SOC 2 Type II controls, CI/CD support, and incident response. You will use Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CLI to automate provisioning and secure deployments while maintaining

Qualifications

• 5+ years Linux systems administration in production environments.
• Experience supporting SOC 2 Type II audits and evidence collection.
• Strong AWS expertise (EC2/ECS, IAM, networking, WAF, monitoring).
• Hands-on with CI/CD and automation tooling.
• Security-focused with patching, hardening, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Linux hosts and production apps on AWS with reliability.
• Coordinate SOC 2 Type II control evidence and audits with CTO and owners.
• Monitor, log, alert, and respond to incidents; ensure availability.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and secure deployment practices.
• Automate provisioning and configuration with Terraform and Ansible.

Skills

Linux administration

AWS administration

SOC 2 Type II audits

CI/CD & automation

Security hardening

Terraform

Ansible

Docker & Docker Compose

Python scripting

Monitoring & incident response

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CLI

Docker

Docker Compose

Flask

Vue

Jira

Sentry

Job description

AvatarFleet LLC is seeking a Systems & Security Engineer to join a fully remote team. You will own security administration, Linux systems, and AWS infrastructure, collaborating with the CTO and software engineers to ensure production reliability and audit readiness.

The role emphasizes patching, hardening, monitoring, SOC 2 Type II controls, CI/CD support, and incident response. You will use Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CLI to automate provisioning and secure deployments while maintaining