Senior Security Engineer - Onsite Lead, Physical & Cloud Security

Cybersecurity Jobs; Maryland; Presencial; USD 178.000 - 227.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Sign‑on payments and RSUs

Descripción de la vacante

Amazon Security in Annapolis Junction, MD is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help set and maintain security posture for distributed services across AWS regions. This onsite role focuses on reducing risk across physical access control, alarm monitoring, video surveillance, and device management while enabling scalable mitigations at fleet scale.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years troubleshooting systems, 5+ years security risk experience, and strong scripting and coding skills in languages

Formación

• 4+ years of non‑internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
• 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
• 4+ years of non‑internship scripting, programming, and security code review using common programming languages.
• Knowledge of at least two programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• Non‑internship experience identifying industry security vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience serving as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Responsabilidades

• Lead security architecture reviews and threat modeling for services deployed across all AWS regions within a fully Infrastructure as Code environment, surfacing one-way-door technical decisions and advocating for durable long-term solutions
• Design and implement security controls that centralize protections across the platform, reducing reliance on independent solutions by individual service teams
• Create security frameworks, runbooks, and rubrics for new problem domains to support repeatable and scalable security outcomes across the organization
• Drive security investigations, escalation handling, and root‑cause analysis through COE processes to ensure systemic issues are permanently resolved
• Review code and peer‑produced architecture to support secure design, least privilege, correct authentication and authorization, and safe data handling
• Influence security decisions with partner organizations by balancing risk trade‑offs with business velocity and identifying practical compensating controls
• Mentor and develop security engineers, including contributions to hiring assessments, promotion evaluations, and career guidance

Conocimientos

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Programming languages

Mentorship / Leadership

Herramientas

Infrastructure as Code

Descripción del empleo

Amazon Security in Annapolis Junction, MD is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help set and maintain security posture for distributed services across AWS regions. This onsite role focuses on reducing risk across physical access control, alarm monitoring, video surveillance, and device management while enabling scalable mitigations at fleet scale.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years troubleshooting systems, 5+ years security risk experience, and strong scripting and coding skills in languages