Senior Cloud Security & Compliance Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and implementation of complex AWS security and compliance solutions that scale with customer demand. You will build AI-enabled automations, develop secure-by-design infrastructure, and own risk identification and remediation across multiple teams.

You will architect controls, automate reviews, and contribute to the security strategy for highly regulated customers while communicating with

Qualifications

• 5+ years identifying security issues and developing mitigation plans.
• 4+ years scripting, programming, and security code review.
• Knowledge of two or more programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Own design and architecture choices for security automation solutions for regulated customers.
• Engineer and lead AI-enabled automations and threat modeling.
• Build secure-by-design IaC modules for Landing Zones, Control Tower customizations, and Zero-Trust architectures.
• Lead deployment of AWS security controls, continuous compliance monitoring, and remediation of insecure configurations.
• Architect preventive, detective, and proactive controls and policy-as-code (cfn-guard, OPA Rego, Cedar).
• Set high bars for authentication, data protection, least privilege, and encryption.
• Write and review scripts and IaC (Python, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Rego).
• Lead exploratory POCs, define success criteria and gates.
• Communicate security decisions to technical and non-technical audiences, including C-level.
• Identify and shape sales opportunities; influence service-roadmaps and SAS offering strategy.

Skills

Security risk mgmt

Scripting & code review

Programming languages

Secure coding

Cloud security engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Rego

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and implementation of complex AWS security and compliance solutions that scale with customer demand. You will build AI-enabled automations, develop secure-by-design infrastructure, and own risk identification and remediation across multiple teams.

You will architect controls, automate reviews, and contribute to the security strategy for highly regulated customers while communicating with