Sr. Security & Compliance Engineer, AWS Security Assurance Services, LLC

AWS Security Assurance Services (SAS) is hiring a Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and implementation of complex AWS security and compliance solutions that accomplish customer-defined business and security outcomes, solving for new levels of scale, complexity, and performance. You will build custom security controls, AI-enabled automation and tooling that translate security and compliance frameworks into secure-by-design implementations on AWS. You will innovate on behalf of AWS's most highly regulated customers, design and build controls, write code, lead reviews, automate remediations, and own security risk identification, mitigation, and engineering outcomes that span beyond a single team, leading development of the security and compliance solutions and products.

Key job 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.

About the team

The AWS Security Assurance Services team, within AWS Support, leverages the expertise and ingenuity of our builders to establish scalable security solutions for both internal and external customers that drive business outcomes. Our goal of securing the world's workloads and building a brighter future for humanity requires reliable delivery of bar-raising security outcomes and investment in security mechanisms and automation on behalf of our customers.

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC, a PCI-QSAC (Payment Card Industry-Qualified Security Assessor company) and HITRUST External Assessor Firm, is a team of industry-certified assessors and Security and Compliance Engineers helping our customers achieve, maintain, and automate compliance in the cloud by tying applicable audit standards to AWS service features and functionality. The team works with AWS's largest enterprise customers to operationalize the shared responsibility model as they migrate to the cloud.