Security Engineer: Regional Cloud Onboarding & Assurance

Amazon; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Region Services in Australia is recruiting Security Engineers to lead and contribute to the onboarding and assurance of regional cloud services. You will be responsible for security risk assessment, cloud-native technologies, and automation to support the national security community.

Successful candidates will have strong analytical skills, experience with enterprise gateways and data-transfer solutions, and be willing to participate in on-call rotations to ensure continuous operational

Qualifications

• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language (non-internship)
• Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analysing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship experience)
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
• 3+ years of IT Security experience

Responsibilities

• Lead security onboarding and assurance for region-specific cloud services, designing scalable mechanisms that ensure the operational readiness of regional AWS infrastructure.
• Engineer and automate security-control validation for cloud services and data-transfer pathways, including reviews of technical designs, architectures, code, configurations, documentation and structured data schemas (JSON, JSON Schema, XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath).
• Partner with service teams and customers to translate security requirements into technical baselines, control objectives, implementation patterns and measurable acceptance criteria aligned with Australian security frameworks such as the ISM, PSPF and DSPF.
• Develop reusable security tooling, automated evidence collection and reporting mechanisms that reduce manual effort and improve the consistency of service onboarding, assurance and audit engagements across AWS environments.
• Investigate security events and non-conformance, determine root causes, implement durable corrective solutions through automation, and participate in the on-call rotation to support continuous operational readiness.

Skills

Security risk assessment (SRA)

Cloud-native tech

Software development

Enterprise gateways

Data-transfer solutions

Job description

AWS Region Services in Australia is recruiting Security Engineers to lead and contribute to the onboarding and assurance of regional cloud services. You will be responsible for security risk assessment, cloud-native technologies, and automation to support the national security community.

Successful candidates will have strong analytical skills, experience with enterprise gateways and data-transfer solutions, and be willing to participate in on-call rotations to ensure continuous operational