Security & Compliance Engineer II, AWS Security Assurance Services, LLC

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. AWS Security Assurance Services is seeking a security engineer to lead threat modeling and architecture reviews. You will design policy-as-code, automate remediation, and build secure-by-design infrastructure across AWS Landing Zones and Control Tower.

You will implement defenses and integrate tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role requires strong programming skills, IaC experience (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation), and experience with security and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar OO language
• 2+ years of scripting and security code review
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or IT security
• Knowledge of HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP
• Demonstrated ability to write/review code, IaC, detections for security defenses
• Demonstrated ability to lead security investigations and root-cause analysis

Responsibilities

• Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and architecture reviews for customer engagements
• Design and implement policy-as-code and automated remediation workflows
• Build secure-by-design IaC controls for Landing Zones and AWS Control Tower
• Apply AWS security best practices for authentication, data handling, and least privilege
• Write/review IaC and detections in Python, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Rego
• Develop continuous compliance monitoring and audit-ready evidence pipelines
• Integrate controls with AWS-native and third-party tooling
• Collaborate across teams and travel to customer sites as needed

Skills

Python

Ruby

Go

Swift

Java

C#/.NET

C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM fields

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

cfn-guard/OPA Rego/Cedar

Job description

Description

• 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 isn’t 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 world’s 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non‑internship) experience
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non‑internship) experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non‑internship experience)
• Demonstrated ability to write and review code, scripts, IaC, and detections in support of security defenses.
• Demonstrated ability to lead security investigations and resolve root causes of operational and security issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• 5+ years as a technical specialist, including 3+ years in secure coding, software development, cloud security engineering, or related work
• Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Java, or .NET.
• 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 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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Company - Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Job ID: A10450158