AWS Security Assurance Services LLC
Cloud Security
SeniorSecurity&ComplianceEngineer
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“Senior Security & Compliance Engineer at AWS Security Assurance Services LLC. Skills: Security Assurance, Compliance Engineering, AWS Security, Automation. Engineer AI-enabled automations. Lead threat modeling”
What You'll Achieve.
Achieve business outcomes; Achieve security outcomes; Solve for scale; Solve for complexity; Solve for performance
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root-cause analysis
Travel as needed
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years identifying security issues, 5+ years scripting/programming/code review, Knowledge of 2+ programming languages, Experience in security vulnerabilities identification, Experience as mentor/tech lead
Nice to Have
Custom controls development, SCP and RCP experience, Policy-as-code experience, AWS Security Reference Architecture expertise, AWS Organizations multi-account strategy expertise, Well-Architected Framework expertise, CI/CD at enterprise scale expertise, Expert-level AWS security knowledge, Hands-on incident response experience, Spec-driven AI agentic design experience, Model Context Protocol experience, AWS certifications, Producing audit-ready evidence, Working with third-party assessors
What You'll Do.
Engineer AI-enabled automations
Lead security design reviews
Lead architecture reviews
Lead security assessments
Own architecture choices
Lead deployment of controls
Lead implementation of controls
Architect custom controls
Set bar for authentication
Set bar for authorization
Set bar for data handling
Set bar for least privilege
Set bar for encryption
Set bar for micro-segmentation
Set bar for tagging strategy
Set bar for integrations
Set bar for secure AI design
Perform root-cause analysis
Lead development of technical content
Communicate security risk
Communicate design decisions
Identify sales opportunities
Shape sales opportunities
Provide input to roadmaps
Provide input to offering strategy
Travel to customer sites
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with peers; Work with senior managers; Work with principal engineers
Communication Scope
Verbal communication; Written communication; Technical communication; Non-technical communication; C-level communication
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
AWS Security Assurance Services (SAS) is hiring a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to innovate on behalf of customers and lead prototyping and development of the security and compliance solutions. The right candidate will own security risk identification, mitigation, and engineering outcomes that span beyond a single team: designing controls, writing code, leading reviews, automating remediations, and translating compliance frameworks into secure-by-default implementations on AWS. They will lead design, deployment, and implementation of complex AWS security and compliance solutions that accomplish defined business and security outcomes, solving for new levels of scale, complexity, and performance. Key job responsibilities Engineer AI-enabled automations, lead threat modeling, security design reviews, architecture reviews & security assessments Own design and architecture choices for security and compliance automation solutions for regulated customers and influence partner-org designs. Build secure-by-default 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, technical control validation, visualization and reporting, automated evidence collection and remediation of insecure configurations at scale. Architect custom preventive, detective, and proactive controls, e.g. service-Control- policies, Resource-Control Policies (SCPs and RCPs), policy-as-code (cfn-guard, OPA Rego, Cedar), and automated remediation workflows. Set the bar for authentication and authorization, data handling, least privilege, encryption, micro-segmentation, tagging strategy, integrations via API and MCP, and secure AI agentic design. Write and review architecture, code, scripts, IaC, including Python, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, REGO). Lead alignment, resolve escalations, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis to closure
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