Senior Security Engineer – Incident Response & IAM

Direct applicants only — no third-party agencies, please.

Please note: LinkedIn does not offer a contract-to-hire employment type. Our client is open to both direct-hire full-time and contract-to-hire arrangements, depending on candidate qualifications, availability, and hiring timelines.

Our client is an established healthcare technology company connecting pharmacies, healthcare payers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and patients through innovative software and clinical solutions. With more than 46 years of industry experience, its technology supports approximately 48,000 pharmacies and over 70 million patients nationwide.

This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative security organization and take ownership of critical security operations, incident response, and enterprise access management. You'll play a key role in modernizing security processes, strengthening threat detection, and protecting healthcare technology platforms within a lean, highly technical team.

Quick Overview

• Location: Orlando, FL; Overland Park (Kansas City), KS; or Dublin (Columbus), OH
• Work Model: Hybrid — Monday, Tuesday, Thursday onsite; Wednesday and Friday remote
• Employment: Full-time direct hire or contract-to-hire
• Base Salary: $150,000–$160,000+ or more plus 20% bonus
• Travel: Occasional, for team meetings and company events
• Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

The Role

We're seeking a Senior Security Engineer to own and advance enterprise security operations within a complex healthcare technology environment.

This is a hands-on position combining technical incident response, IAM governance, SIEM modernization, and security monitoring. You'll manage critical day-to-day security responsibilities while improving manual processes, strengthening controls, and helping build more scalable security programs.

The ideal candidate has deep incident response experience, has built or improved enterprise access management programs, and can independently manage security threats while collaborating across IT and engineering teams.

What You'll Do

• Own technical incident response, including threat investigations, containment, remediation, and coordination across security and IT teams.
• Lead enterprise IAM and access governance, reviewing access requests, permissions, entitlements, and approval workflows across company systems.
• Modernize access management, reducing manual processes, improving controls, and implementing scalable access review programs.
• Drive SIEM modernization, evaluating vendors, defining log ingestion requirements, and supporting hands-on migration and implementation.
• Manage security monitoring, analyzing logs, investigating alerts, and responding to vulnerabilities and emerging threats.
• Conduct security reviews of new applications, products, and cloud deployments, primarily within AWS environments.
• Partner with IT, engineering, and security leadership to assess risks, strengthen controls, and recommend practical security improvements.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of IT experience, including substantial hands-on security engineering experience.
• Strong incident response expertise, including direct ownership of complex investigations and remediation.
• Significant IAM experience, ideally building or modernizing enterprise access governance and approval programs.
• Hands-on SIEM and security monitoring experience, including log analysis, alert investigation, and platform implementation or migration.
• Solid understanding of vulnerability management, threat detection, and enterprise security controls.
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud security and application security reviews.
• Strong communication, independent problem-solving, and sound security risk judgment.

Preferred

• Healthcare technology, SaaS, or regulated industry experience, including HIPAA/PHI security.
• Experience selecting, implementing, or migrating SIEM platforms.
• Experience automating access reviews, approvals, or IAM governance workflows.
• Familiarity with application/API security and emerging AI technologies such as Amazon Bedrock or Claude.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GSEC, CISA, or Security+.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• High-impact ownership of incident response, enterprise IAM, and security operations.
• Opportunity to modernize security programs, including access governance and SIEM technologies.
• Collaborative, lean security team offering meaningful autonomy and technical influence.
• Predominantly AWS environment supporting modern healthcare applications and emerging AI technologies.
• Meaningful healthcare impact across 48,000 pharmacies and more than 70 million patients.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical/dental/vision coverage, 401(k) with company matching provisions, and flexible PTO for eligible full-time employees.

If you're a hands-on security engineer who enjoys owning incident response, improving enterprise security programs, and solving complex security challenges, we'd love to connect.