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Senior Security Engineer

Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom
Johnston, IA Contractor
POSTED ON 6/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/3/2026

Important information: To be immediately considered, please send an updated version of your resume to somp767@kellyservices.com.


Title: Senior Software Engineer (Senior Security Engineer)

Pay Rate: Can go up to $90 per hour

Location: Johnston, IA, 50131

Duration: Until 06/2029

Type – W2 contract (No C2C)


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Senior Security Engineer to help secure our next generation of connected vehicles. This role will focus on securing embedded controllers, vehicle networks, and the cloud‑based services that connect to them, ensuring our products are resilient against evolving cyber threats while meeting global regulatory requirements.

As a senior‑level engineer, you will operate as a technical leader and security subject‑matter expert, influencing architecture, development practices, and risk decisions across multiple product lines. You will work closely with embedded software, electrical systems, and cloud platform teams to implement cryptographic security controls.


The following are the responsibilities of the team.

  • Define and review security architectures for embedded systems, influencing the design of new features (embedded, cloud and mobile) to ensure that our security needs can be met
  • Design key management, and access control mechanisms for resource‑constrained embedded environments
  • Design and develop new security solutions to support autonomy


Minimum skills required

  • 8 years of full-stack software development experience, including Python-based backend services
  • Experience with Linux distributions
  • Experience in the application of cryptographic security controls for embedded systems
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering or experience that would be equivalent.


What makes you stand out

  • Experience in the development of IoT devices
  • PKI experience, including certificate lifecycle management and key protection
  • Experience in a DevOps role
  • Experience developing AWS-native applications

Salary : $90

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