Security Engineer

Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company that helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into meaningful business impact. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and a charter member of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, we combine deep expertise in AWS, artificial intelligence, and Anthropic’s Claude platform to help customers modernize their technology, build intelligent products, and move AI from experimentation into production.

Our capabilities span generative and agentic AI, cloud migration and modernization, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, managed services, security and compliance, and customer experience transformation. At Caylent, our people always come first.

We are a fully remote global company with employees in Canada, the United States and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!

The Mission

We are seeking a talented Security Engineer to join our growing Security team. The right candidate is someone who has a mix of AWS skills, networking familiarity, curiosity in emerging AI technologies, and a knack for tying it all together securely. ... Your mission will be helping improve Caylent’s security and compliance posture across AWS and various SaaS environments, improving our vulnerability management processes, and keeping Caylent safe against an onslaught of ever-evolving actors and tactics. 

Your Assignment

• Review or conduct regular security and vulnerability assessments leveraging automated and non-automated methods on cloud-based and mobile workloads.
• Periodically monitor/audit implementations and ensure they are functioning properly.
• Identify and advise on technical security requirements, review and approve security architecture and control implementations
• Research security standards/tools
• Develop, update, and/or review Security Assessment Reports
• Develop and tune automated tests and rules, and monitor alerts and alarms for deviations from security standards, particularly using AWS tools such as Inspector, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Lambda, and Security Hub.
• Identifying, engineering, and building/updating/integrating new and existing security tooling, including cloud-native services
• Advise project teams on current and projected technical security risks, and recommend mitigation strategies to control risk.
• Assist internal development teams in defining and updating application threat models and in interpreting security policies, standards, and control requirements.
• Design vulnerability scans of cloud-based and mobile applications and infrastructure to identify weaknesses, coordinate with app teams to confirm validity of findings, and recommend and assist with mitigations as needed.