Security Engineer, AWS Cross Domain Services (Diode)

AWS is seeking a Cross Domain Services Security Engineer to support our government customers in the Intelligence Defense and National Security communities. Were looking for someone passionate and deeply excited about this space. Someone who is devoted to helping customers understand how our services can make a big difference to their mission.

Are you excited to help leverage cross domain services in their classified missions If you are eager to learn from a variety of enterprise use cases of AWS Diode and excited to become a key part of Amazon - who has been investing in cross domain services for a decade pioneering and shaping Cloud-CDS technology - then we welcome you to join us!

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

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Key job responsibilities
As a Security Engineer youll help your customers plan their successful cloud CDS journey. Youll solve complex technical challenges so your customers can focus on their mission. This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable flexible and resilient cloud CDS architectures. Youll drive technical solutions discussions diving deep into the details with customer teams.

As a customer obsessed advisor youll also have the chance to shape the direction of our products and services. This is through gathering feedback from customers whilst collaborating with our engineering and product teams.

Candidates must have great communication skills and be very technical with the ability to impress AWS customers at any level from executive to developer. Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required provided you have experience building large scale solutions. You will get the opportunity to work directly with senior engineers at customers partners and AWS service teams influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation.

If you are someone who enjoys innovating likes solving hard problems and working with innovative technology we would love to have you on the team.

A day in the life
As a trusted technical advisor you will:
- Build relationships to understand our customers and partners.
- Use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives.
- Help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long-term goals.
- Speed up the adoption of our AWS Diode service as part of your day to day.
- Act as a thought leader in the wider community.
- Play a lead role in educating sharing best practices presenting at events writing white papers blogs and running workshops.
- You wont just be part of an industry movement; youll be leading it.

Have questions about this role Start a chat with the recruiter today! Please reach out to Krystan Silva at for inquiries.

About the team
On the AWS Diode team we are helping the federal government build and use cross domain services on the AWS Cloud. Cross Domain Services is rapidly growing in importance. Were seeing more and more amazing work being done from simple back office applications to complex mission changing workflows.

Why AWS
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Diverse Experiences
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- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5 years of programming in Python Ruby Go Swift C or similar object oriented language experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience in scripting programming and security code reviewing in a common programming language along with troubleshooting systems issues analyzing logs or automating basic tasks using command line tools
- Current active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

- 2 years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography system administration and network security experience
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python Java C
- Experience in scripting programming or security code reviewing in a common language such as Python Java or C

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.