Security & Compliance Engineer

- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
- Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing
- Experience writing for developer and technical audiences: blog, product documentation, technical information
- • Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Java, or .NET.
- • Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code skills in Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
- • Hands-on experience with AWS security and governance services: Config, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda, CloudTrail, CloudWatch/EventBridge.
- • Experience deploying SCPs and RCPs in multi-account AWS Organizations.
- • Experience writing and deploying policy-as-code (cfn-guard, OPA Rego, Cedar, or equivalent).
- • Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for security or compliance control deployment.
- • Experience with AWS Control Tower customizations, Landing Zones, or Zero-Trust architectures.
- • Working knowledge of at least one compliance framework: SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CIS, or NIST.
- • Experience producing audit-ready evidence and working with third-party assessors.
- • Spec-driven development; AI agentic design and Model Context Protocol (MCP) experience.
- • Industry and AWS certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, or equivalent.

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AWS Security Assurance Services (SAS) is hiring a Security & Compliance Engineer to design, build, and deploy AWS security and compliance solutions for highly regulated customers. You will own engineering deliverables across the full lifecycle - secure design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance - translating compliance frameworks (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CIS, NIST, FedRAMP) into secure-by-design AWS implementations. You will work autonomously within your team deliver cross-functional projects with partner teams and drive measurable risk reduction for customers at scale. You'll write code ship custom controls run security investigations lead design and code reviews on your team and mentor junior engineers. You will identify systemic issues propose pragmatic solutions and improve the team's mechanisms over time.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead threat modeling security design reviews and architecture reviews for customer engagements; identify and mitigate risks across systems and applications.
• Design and implement custom preventive, detective, and proactive controls - Service Control Policies (SCPs), Resource Control Policies (RCPs), policy-as-code (cfn-guard, OPA, Rego, Cedar), and automated remediation workflows.
• Build secure-by-design Infrastructure-as-Code controls for Landing Zones, AWS Control Tower customizations, Zero-Trust architectures, and AI/ML workloads.
• Apply AWS security best practices for authentication and authorization, data handling, least privilege, encryption, micro-segmentation, tagging strategy, and API/MCP integration.
• Write and review IaC scripts enforcements and detections in Python, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Rego.
• Build continuous compliance monitoring automated evidence collection visualization reporting and remediation pipelines that hold up in audit.
• Integrate custom controls with AWS-native and third-party security and compliance tooling.
• Drive emerging-edge ideas into prototyping end-to-end to inform new security and compliance solutions and products.
• Identify risks and edge cases; propose implementation paths and go/no-go gates.
• Apply systematic approaches to risk identification; propose compensating controls when direct remediation isn't possible.
• Help develop technical content.
• Identify cross-team patterns, gaps, and improvements.
• Travel to customer sites as needed.

About the team
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