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Security Engineer III AMZ9971078

Amazon


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 20 August 2026 (19 days ago)
Application Deadline: 17 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Employer: AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S. INC.
Offered Position: Security Engineer III
Job Location: New York New York
Job Number: AMZ9971078

Position Responsibilities:

Partner closely with Product Management Engineering and Identity teams to define and design controls and governance capabilities. Understand and represent how enterprises think about and organize their risk and compliance posture in the cloud. Combined with a deep understanding of security performance resiliency and cost concerns associated with the entire portfolio of AWS services threat model define and design a scalable set of preventative and detective controls that can be audited and evolved over time.

Position Requirements:

Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Bachelors degree and five years of experience. Must have five years of experience in the following skills: (1) threat modeling and security risk assessment of cloud services and distributed systems; (2) designing and implementing Service Control Policies AWS Config Rules or CloudFormation Guard policies; (3) developing preventative and detective security controls for cloud infrastructure; and (4) implementing governance controls aligned to compliance frameworks including NIST SOC 2 PCI-DSS ISO 27001 or GDPR. Must have three years of experience in the following skills: (5) experience with cloud architecture and infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation Terraform or similar tools; and (6) security policy-as-code development and automation.

is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

40 hours / week 8:00am-5:00pm Salary Range $175843/year to $236900/year.

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 visit:
Requirements:

Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Bachelors degree and five years of experience. Must have five years of experience in the following skills: (1) threat modeling and security risk assessment of cloud services and distributed systems; (2) designing and implementing Service Control Policies AWS Config Rules or CloudFormation Guard policies; (3) developing preventative and detective security controls for cloud infrastructure; and (4) implementing governance controls aligned to compliance frameworks including NIST SOC 2 PCI-DSS ISO 27001 or GDPR. Must have three years of experience in the following skills: (5) experience with cloud architecture and infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation Terraform or similar tools; and (6) security policy-as-code development and automation.#0000

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