Senior Security Engineer, Global Professional Services Security

Description

We're seeking a Security Engineer to design, develop, and implement security solutions that strengthen AWS Global Pro Serve's security posture. You'll build automated security mechanisms to monitor and protect AWS interactions with customers, developing elegant solutions to complex business problems while following security engineering best practices.

As a Security Engineer at AWS, you'll contribute across multiple domains within Professional Services Security and throughout Amazon. You'll mentor junior engineers, serve as a security thought leader, and foster constructive dialogue while seeking continuous process improvements. You're expected to have deep expertise in at least one specialty while maintaining broad Information Security knowledge across technical areas.

This role combines troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills with opportunities to handle diverse tasks including project and software development work. You'll gain new security skills and advance your career as you grow within the organization.

• Automate security tools and develop security solutions
• Conduct application security reviews and threat modeling
• Design secure architectures and provide security guidance
• Deliver security metrics and drive continuous improvements
• Mentor teams through security training and documentation

• Enhance automation to improve operational efficiency and build insights from existing data
• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities across diverse tool landscapes and architectures
• Collaborate with Professional Services teams on security mechanisms and compliance standards
• Contribute to security training, best practices documentation, and policies for regulated data
• Implement scalable audit processes for security controls and compliance standards

• 4+ years of non‑internship background in troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
• 4+ years of (non‑internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages:
  Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience

• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience with security in service‑oriented architectures/microservices and web services
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Locations and salary ranges:
USA, TX, Dallas – $ – $ USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington – $ – $ USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle – $ – $ USD annually

US Citizen required.

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Company:
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Job : A3160014