Senior Cloud Security & Compliance Engineer – AI-Driven Solutions

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

Job summary

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC seeks a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead design, deployment, and implementation of complex security and compliance solutions on AWS. You will build custom security controls, AI-enabled automation, and secure-by-design implementations, partnering with highly regulated customers to scale security across the cloud.

Responsibilities include leading security reviews, automating remediations, and shaping SAS offerings, with collaboration across teams

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own design and architecture choices for security and compliance automation for regulated customers.
• 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 and remediation of insecure configurations.
• Architect preventive, detective, and proactive controls and policy-as-code (cfn-guard, OPA Rego, Cedar).
• Set high bar for authentication, data protection, least privilege, and secure AI agentic design.

Skills

Security engineering

Python

Java

Go

Threat modeling

Education

CISSP

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

AWS Security Specialty

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

OPA Rego

Cfn-Guard

Cedar

Job description

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC seeks a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead design, deployment, and implementation of complex security and compliance solutions on AWS. You will build custom security controls, AI-enabled automation, and secure-by-design implementations, partnering with highly regulated customers to scale security across the cloud.

Responsibilities include leading security reviews, automating remediations, and shaping SAS offerings, with collaboration across teams