Senior Application and Cloud Security Engineer

• Review application and AWS architectures, identify priority risks, and produce clear remediation guidance.
• Implement security guardrails, identity controls, cloud configuration improvements, and CI/CD checks.
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders to balance risk reduction, delivery speed, operability, and cost.
• Use AI coding agents to accelerate implementation while preserving evidence, testing, and accountability.

We’re hiring a Senior Application and Cloud Security Engineer Consultant for a remote healthcare technology modernization program. This is a Corp-to-Corp 1099 engagement for a hands-on security engineer who can assess application and AWS architecture, design practical controls, and help engineering teams implement them.

This is an AI-forward delivery role. Daily use of coding agents such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, or equivalent tools is required. You must retain human ownership of correctness, security, testing, and production readiness.

Key Requirements

• 10+ years in application, cloud, platform, or product security.
• Strong secure-design judgment across APIs, web applications, services, data flows, secrets, authentication, authorization, logging, and failure modes.
• Hands-on AWS security experience with IAM, workload identities, VPC controls, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and related services.
• Zero Trust and identity experience, including least privilege, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SAML, MFA, RBAC or permission-based authorization, and privileged-access patterns.
• Application-security testing and remediation experience using threat modeling, SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, and CI/CD guardrails.
• Ability to use AI coding agents to accelerate security work while protecting sensitive data and preserving human review.
• Excellent client-facing communication, requirements discovery, and the ability to turn findings into prioritized implementation work.
• Healthcare, pharmacy, HIPAA, PHI, or other regulated-data experience is preferred.
• Must have an active LLC or S-Corp. This is 1099 Corp-to-Corp only; no W-2., * Application or cloud security: 10+ years (Required)
• AWS security: 5+ years (Required)
• Identity and Zero Trust: 3+ years (Required)
• Consulting/client-facing delivery: 5+ years (Required)
• Daily use of AI coding agents: 1+ years (Required)
• Healthcare or regulated-data environments: Any (Preferred)

Agencies: We are not engaging staffing agencies for this role.

Job Type: Contract

Compensation Package:

• 1099 contract

Proactive Logic Consulting INC is a boutique technology consulting firm that delivers innovation, assessments and roadmaps, process automation and AI, cloud modernization, and application modernization.

We bring together senior independent consultants who combine deep technical judgment, high EQ, customer focus, and an entrepreneurial approach to delivery.