Senior Cloud Security & Compliance Engineer | IaC & AI Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer in Dallas to design, deploy, and implement complex security and compliance solutions on AWS. You will develop custom controls, automate remediation, and drive security risk identification across teams.

You will lead design reviews, build IaC modules, and orchestrate threat modeling and automated testing for regulated customers, with opportunities to influence product strategy and service roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years identifying security issues and developing mitigation plans.
• 4+ years scripting, programming, and security code review in common languages.
• Knowledge of at least two languages among Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Java, or .NET.

Responsibilities

• Own design and architecture choices for security and compliance automation solutions 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, continuous compliance monitoring, and remediation of insecure configurations.
• Architect custom preventive, detective, and proactive controls and policy-as-code.
• Write and review scripts and IaC (Python, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Rego).
• Lead exploratory POCs, define hypothesis, success criteria, and gates.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

Go

Java

Education

CISSP

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

AWS Security Specialty

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

cfn-guard

OPA Rego

Cedar

Job description

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer in Dallas to design, deploy, and implement complex security and compliance solutions on AWS. You will develop custom controls, automate remediation, and drive security risk identification across teams.

You will lead design reviews, build IaC modules, and orchestrate threat modeling and automated testing for regulated customers, with opportunities to influence product strategy and service roadmaps.