Senior AWS Security & Compliance Engineer—AI Automation

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

Job summary

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead design, deployment, and implementation of complex security and compliance solutions on AWS. You will build AI-enabled automations, write code, and own risk identification and remediation across teams.

You will work on secure-by-design controls, cross-account architectures, and policy-as-code while collaborating with stakeholders and driving remediation at scale. Travel to customer sites may be required.

Qualifications

• 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

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 assessment

Scripting

Programming languages

Education

CISSP

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

AWS Security Specialty

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

cfn-guard

OPA Rego

Job description

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead design, deployment, and implementation of complex security and compliance solutions on AWS. You will build AI-enabled automations, write code, and own risk identification and remediation across teams.

You will work on secure-by-design controls, cross-account architectures, and policy-as-code while collaborating with stakeholders and driving remediation at scale. Travel to customer sites may be required.