Senior DevSecOps / Cloud Security Engineer (6-Month Contract)

About the opportunity Join a security-focused squad to harden a multi-region AWS platform ahead of a major launch milestone, working directly with a fast-moving US engineering team.

About our client Our client is a leader in video-based learning, enabling companies and educational institutions to create, manage, and share video content at scale.

What you'll do

• Run security assessments and threat modeling across the AWS environment: network security, secrets management, infrastructure, and IAM

• Review and remediate launch-critical findings in Infrastructure as Code

• Review AI-assisted and AI-generated code for security risk

• Build and execute the security roadmap: WAF, SAST/DAST, security gates in CI/CD, secrets management, and IAM hardening

• Pair with the client’s engineers and in-house DevSecOps hire so practices stay with the team

• Provide documentation, runbooks, and reports to ensure visibility and a record of all work delivered

• Other activities as agreed upon between the client and the team

What you bring (must-haves)

• Hands-on AWS security experience in multi-region environments

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation)

• IAM design and hardening

• Comfort working with Claude and agentic development workflows, and a clear view of where they introduce security risk

Bonus points for (nice-to-haves)

• CI/CD security tooling (SAST/DAST) and building security gates into pipelines

• WAF configuration and management

• Secrets management at scale

• Experience embedding security into a fast-moving product team

Perks & benefits 💻 Equipment provided — none of that "bring your own device" stuff here 🛡️ Full back-office support — Legal, Accounting, HR Business Partner, and Delivery team 🧭 Career and cultural mentoring — how to show up, stand out, and navigate US work culture 🗣️ Free English lessons with a native speaker 🤝 Referral bonus — recommend Ubi to your tech friends and get paid for it 🏖️ Florianópolis HQ always open — 100% remote, but the office is there whenever you want it.

How the process works Interview with our Tech Recruiter (+ quick AI assessment, if needed) Client interview process (varies by company) Offer 🎉 Onboarding with full Ubiminds support

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