Senior AWS Security & Compliance Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Houston (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Security Assurance Services (SAS) is hiring a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and implementation of complex security and compliance solutions on AWS, delivering secure-by-design implementations for highly regulated customers.

You will write code, develop AI-enabled automations, build IaC modules, perform threat modeling, and guide reviews and remediation at scale, across teams and customer sites.

Qualifications

• 5+ years identifying security issues and risks with mitigation plans.
• 4+ years scripting, programming, and security code review.
• Knowledge of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.

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.

Skills

Security risk analysis

Scripting/Programming

Python

Java

Go

Job description

AWS Security Assurance Services (SAS) is hiring a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and implementation of complex security and compliance solutions on AWS, delivering secure-by-design implementations for highly regulated customers.

You will write code, develop AI-enabled automations, build IaC modules, perform threat modeling, and guide reviews and remediation at scale, across teams and customer sites.