Security Consultant – Staff

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HIKINEX

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201 - 500 employees

🤝 B2B

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B2B • Recruitment

HIKINEX is a multi-channel integrated service provider that delivers outsourced sales, recruitment, virtual assistant, and marketing support to help companies scale quickly and reduce operating costs. The company offers sales-as-a-service (appointment setting, outbound sales, sales training), end-to-end recruiting and talent acquisition (sourcing, screening, ATS management, executive recruiting), virtual administrative support, and marketing/brand ambassador services. HIKINEX operates remotely out of San Francisco and emphasizes flexible, scalable staffing and operations solutions for B2B clients.

📋 Description

• We are seeking a Security Consultant (Staff) to provide security leadership and guidance across application modernization and database migration workstreams. • This role will establish security, logging, observability, and compliance standards while ensuring the modernized environment aligns with public sector and healthcare data protection requirements. • As the primary security resource supporting multiple workstreams, the consultant will focus on defining patterns, governance, and best practices rather than implementing every security control directly. • Define and oversee security, logging, and observability standards throughout modernization and migration efforts • Establish secure architecture patterns for AWS-based target environments • Develop and promote IAM, secrets management, and least-privilege access strategies • Ensure proper handling and protection of PHI and PII data within healthcare and Medicaid-related systems • Advise teams on compliance requirements applicable to state government workloads • Review application security controls, authentication and authorization approaches, and secure coding practices • Assess converted database access patterns and connection security, including Aurora PostgreSQL endpoints • Provide guidance on encryption, monitoring, logging, and auditability requirements • Support risk identification, remediation planning, and security governance activities • Collaborate with technical teams to embed security best practices throughout the delivery lifecycle

🎯 Requirements

• Security & Application Modernization • Strong experience performing secure code reviews and application security assessments • Expertise with ASP.NET Core security best practices • Experience migrating authentication and authorization frameworks, including: Forms Authentication System.Web.Security Membership ASP.NET Core Identity OIDC / OAuth 2.0 JWT-based authentication • Knowledge of: CORS configuration Anti-forgery protections ASP.NET Core Data Protection APIs (MachineKey replacement) • AWS Security • Hands-on expertise with: IAM Roles and Policies AWS Secrets Manager AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Security Groups AWS WAF Amazon GuardDuty AWS CloudTrail • Experience securing cloud-native applications and database workloads • Observability & Monitoring • Experience implementing structured logging solutions using: Serilog Microsoft.Extensions.Logging • Knowledge of: OpenTelemetry CloudWatch Logs CloudWatch Metrics Distributed tracing and correlation IDs across modernized application stacks • Data Protection & Compliance • Experience supporting environments containing PHI and PII • Knowledge of: Encryption in transit (TLS) Encryption at rest Database and field-level protection strategies • Familiarity with healthcare and government compliance requirements, including: HIPAA NIST 800-53 State government security frameworks StateRAMP and FedRAMP concepts • Preferred Qualifications AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification • Prior experience supporting Medicaid, healthcare, health-and-human-services, or other public sector programs • Experience securing large-scale modernization or cloud migration initiatives • Familiarity with AWS-based application modernization and database migration projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Important Screening Requirements • Due to client and clearance requirements • Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) and able to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship. • Undergo fingerprinting as part of the onboarding process • Successfully complete a government background investigation (CJIS-type clearance)