Security & Compliance Engineer, AWS Security Assurance Services, LLC

AWS Security Assurance Services (SAS) is hiring a Security & Compliance Engineer to design build and deploy AWS security and compliance solutions for highly regulated customers. You will own engineering deliverables across the full lifecycle secure design implementation testing deployment and maintenance translating compliance frameworks (SOC2 HIPAA PCI-DSS CIS NIST FedRAMP) into secure-by-design AWS implementations. You will work autonomously within your team deliver cross-functional projects with partner teams and drive measurable risk reduction for customers at scale.
Youll write code ship custom controls run security investigations lead design and code reviews on your team and mentor junior engineers. You will identify systemic issues propose pragmatic solutions and improve the teams mechanisms over time.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead threat modeling security design reviews and architecture reviews for customer engagements; identify and mitigate risks across systems and applications.
- Design and implement custom preventive detective and proactive controls Service Control Policies (SCPs) Resource Control Policies (RCPs) policy-as-code (cfn-guard OPA Rego Cedar) and automated remediation workflows.
- Build secure-by-design Infrastructure-as-Code controls for Landing Zones AWS Control Tower customizations Zero-Trust architectures and AI/ML workloads.
- Apply AWS security best practices for authentication and authorization data handling least privilege encryption micro-segmentation tagging strategy and API/MCP integration.
- Write and review IaC scripts enforcements and detections in Python Terraform AWS CDK CloudFormation and Rego.
- Build continuous compliance monitoring automated evidence collection visualization reporting and remediation pipelines that hold up in audit.
- Integrate custom controls with AWS-native and third-party security and compliance tooling.
- Drive emerging-edge ideas into prototyping end-to-end to inform new security and compliance solutions and products.
- Identify risks and edge cases; propose implementation paths and go/no-go gates.
- Apply systematic approaches to risk identification; propose compensating controls when direct remediation isnt possible.
- Help develop technical content
- Identify cross-team patterns gaps improvements.
- Travel to customer sites as needed.

About the team
The AWS Security Assurance Services team within AWS Support leverages the expertise and ingenuity of our builders to establish scalable security solutions for both internal and external customers that drive business outcomes. Our goal of securing the worlds workloads requires reliable delivery of bar-raising security outcomes and investment in security mechanisms and automation on behalf of our customers.
AWS Security Assurance Services LLC a PCI-QSAC and HITRUST External Assessor Firm is a team of industry-certified assessors and Compliance Engineers with DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Architect backgrounds helping our customers achieve maintain and automate compliance in the cloud by tying applicable audit standards to AWS service-specific features and functionality. The SAS team works with our largest enterprise customers to operationalize the shared responsibility model as they migrate to the cloud.

- 3 years of programming in Python Ruby Go Swift C or similar object oriented language experience
- 3 years of scripting programming and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent

- 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
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S) DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) such as security design review threat modeling secure code review and security testing
- Experience writing for developer and technical audiences: blog product documentation technical information
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python TypeScript Go Java .
- Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code skills in Terraform AWS CDK or CloudFormation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS security and governance services: Config Security Hub IAM KMS VPC Lambda CloudTrail CloudWatch/EventBridge.
- Experience deploying SCPs and RCPs in multi-account AWS Organizations.
- Experience writing and deploying policy-as-code (cfn-guard OPA Rego Cedar or equivalent).
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for security or compliance control deployment.
- Experience with AWS Control Tower customizations Landing Zones or Zero-Trust architectures.
- Working knowledge of at least one compliance framework: SOC2 HIPAA PCI-DSS CIS or NIST.
- Experience producing audit-ready evidence and working with third-party assessors.
- Spec-driven development; AI agentic design and Model Context Protocol (MCP) experience.
- Industry and AWS certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional AWS Security Specialty CISSP or equivalent.

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