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Freelance Cloud and Infrastructure Security Engineer

3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Lithuania, Poland
Freelance
Lead
Security Engineer
DevOps and Infrastructure
Ansible AWS Azure Chef CI/CD Cloudflare Java Kubernetes .NET Node.js PHP Ruby SQL Server Terraform TLS TypeScript
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HITCONTRACT

HITCONTRACT

HITCONTRACT is a leading IT recruitment agency in Baltic and Scandinavian countries, offering innovative services with a success fee model for guaranteed results.

Professional Services
11-50
Founded 2015
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Description

  • Assess Azure security across AKS, Istio, API Management, Application Gateway, Front Door, Azure Firewall, hub-and-spoke networking, and Key Vault.
  • Review AWS infrastructure, including ECS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, and VPC.
  • Evaluate edge security controls across Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, and Application Gateway, including WAF configurations, TLS, and security headers.
  • Assess the VM estate, including 500+ SQL Server databases and legacy applications on static virtual machines.
  • Review infrastructure-as-code and configuration management practices using Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, and Chef.
  • Map the infrastructure attack surface and identify vulnerabilities and configuration gaps.
  • Define cloud and infrastructure hardening baselines.
  • Prioritize remediation activities for cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Approximately 8+ years of cloud or infrastructure engineering experience with a strong security background.
  • Deep expertise in Azure security and practical working knowledge of AWS.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes security.
  • Proficiency with Terraform or OpenTofu.
  • Experience using AI assistants to review infrastructure code and configurations.
  • Ability to identify infrastructure security risks and translate findings into actionable remediation priorities.
  • Experience securing Istio service mesh environments (preferred).
  • Ability to review Ansible and Chef configurations (preferred).
  • Relevant certifications such as AZ-500, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or CCSP (preferred).
  • Experience with CSPM tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud or Wiz, and securing legacy infrastructure without established infrastructure-as-code practices (preferred).

Benefits

  • 12-month contract with an ASAP start date.
  • Hands-on work across a complex Azure and AWS environment supporting public-sector SaaS products.
  • Opportunity to work with senior security specialists and develop application-security expertise.
  • Exposure to modern AI coding tools.
  • Collaboration with an English-speaking team with partial overlap with US Eastern time.

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