Sr. Security & Compliance Engineer, AWS Security Assurance Services, LLC

AWS Security Assurance Services (SAS) is hiring a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead the design deployment and implementation of complex AWS security and compliance solutions that accomplish customer-defined business and security outcomes solving for new levels of scale complexity and performance. You will build custom security controls AI-enabled automation and tooling that translate security and compliance frameworks into secure-by-design implementations on AWS. You will innovate on behalf of AWSs most highly regulated customers design and build controls write code lead reviews automate remediations and own security risk identification mitigation and engineering outcomes that span beyond a single team leading development of the security and compliance solutions and products.

Key job responsibilities
- Own design and architecture choices for security and compliance automation solutions for regulated customers and influence partner-org design and deliverables.
- Engineer and lead AI-enabled automations threat modeling design reviews.
- Build secure-by-design IaC modules for Landing Zones Control Tower customizations Zero-Trust architectures and AI/ML workloads.
- Lead the design deployment and implementation of AWS security controls continuous compliance monitoring evidence collection and remediation of insecure configurations to scale with automation.
- Architect custom preventive detective and proactive controls SCPs RCPs policy-as-code (cfn-guard OPA Rego Cedar).
- Set high bar for authentication and authorization data protection least privilege encryption micro-segmentation tagging strategy integrations via API and MCP and secure AI agentic design.
- Write and review scripts and IaC (Python Terraform AWS CDK CloudFormation Rego).
- Lead exploratory POCs on emerging technologies. Define the hypothesis success criteria and go/no-go gates.
- Lead alignment resolve escalations troubleshooting and root-cause analysis to closure
- Lead the development of technical content
- Communicate security risk and design decisions clearly verbally and in writing to technical non-technical and C-level audiences.
- Identify and shape sales opportunities. influence service-team roadmaps and SAS offering strategy.
- 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 and building a brighter future for humanity 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 (Payment Card Industry-Qualified Security Assessor company) and HITRUST External Assessor Firm is a team of industry-certified assessors and Security and Compliance Engineers helping our customers achieve maintain and automate compliance in the cloud by tying applicable audit standards to AWS service features and functionality. The team works with AWSs largest enterprise customers to operationalize the shared responsibility model as they migrate to the cloud.


- 5 years of work in identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans experience
- 4 years of (non-internship) scripting programming and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala Java Python C/C or Go
- Bachelors degree or above in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent or experience working in Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
- 4 years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience or US government security clearance of top secret or above
- Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications or experience working with REST API based services and experience with threat modeling and penetration testing
- Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
- Experience managing conflict escalations negotiating compromise influencing others and problem solving with engineering teams
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients

- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
- Experience in one or more of the following: application security frameworks security code reviews incident response security infrastructure penetration testing mobile security cloud security AI security identity and access controls
- Experience developing deploying and managing AI products at scale
- Experience in security or compliance consulting or advisory work in support of a highly technical environment
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience with compliance & security standards including PCI DSS ISO 27001 HIPAA and NIST
- 8 years as a technical specialist including 5 years in secure coding software development cloud security engineering or related work;
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python TypeScript Go Java .
- Advanced Infrastructure-as-Code proficiency in Terraform AWS CDK and/or CloudFormation.
- Expert-level configuration and architectural experience with AWS security and governance services: Config GuardDuty Security Hub Control Tower Systems Manager KMS IAM VPC Lambda CloudTrail CloudWatch EventBridge.
- Track record of deploying SCPs and RCPs in multi-account AWS Organizations at enterprise scale.
- Experience writing and deploying reusable policy-as-code patterns (cfn-guard OPA Rego Cedar or equivalent).
- Industry and AWS certifications: CISSP AWS Solutions Architect Professional AWS Security Specialty strongly preferred; additional certifications a plus.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TN Nashville - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA TX Dallas - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA TX Houston - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually