AWS is seeking a skilled and forward lookingSecurity Engineerto help drive security outcomes at scale for customers around the world. This role blends technical security engineering with high-impact customer engagement. You will work directly with CISOs, security executives, and engineering teams across a global customer base to understand their challenges and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
You will collaborate with AWS service teams, security specialists, and support organisations to build and scale security mechanisms that raise the bar for all customers. Your work will influence how AWS enables customers to prevent, detect, and respond to security threats at scale.
This is a role for engineers who are technically credible and operationally experienced, capable of influencing senior stakeholders, and comfortable navigating complex security domains. You will design, prototype, and guide the deployment of mechanisms that operate across thousands of AWS environments and contribute directly to improving customer security posture globally.
Key job responsibilities
•Design and implement scalable security mechanisms and tooling across diverse customer environments and architectures.
• Engage directly with CISOs, enterprise architects, and security executives to co-develop secure-by-design solutions.
• Lead threat modelling, posture review, and detection design efforts targeting systemic risk.
• Build automation and detection systems directly or in collaboration with engineering teams to reduce manual effort and accelerate security outcomes.
• Support multi-cloud security conversations, helping customers federate or transition securely across cloud platforms.
• Translate complex customer architecture and operational constraints into scalable security solutions and reusable design patterns.
• Write reference architectures, technical guidance, and tooling for repeatable security outcomes.
• Represent AWS in technical discussions with customer executives, internal engineering teams, and security leaders.
• Participate in or support security incident response initiatives through technical insight, pattern recognition, and mechanism design.
• Define success metrics and evaluate effectiveness of security mechanisms at scale.
A day in the life
AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.
You start your day reviewing posture trends across a fleet of high-risk accounts, identifying a pattern linked to architectural drift in identity federation. Before lunch, you meet with the CISO and enterprise architect of a regulated customer to shape a secure design strategy for a multi-account cloud migration. You then join a working session with AWS engineers to evaluate options for turning that strategy into repeatable guardrails for similar customers. Your day finishes by reviewing a proof-of-concept design for a new automation path, refining the control logic with a peer who’ll own the implementation.
Your time is divided across customer engagement, technical direction-setting, and collaboration with engineering and security teams to embed security mechanisms at scale.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience in a security engineering or security architecture role within a cloud or large-scale distributed systems environment
• Demonstrated ability to engage technical and executive stakeholders, including CISOs and enterprise architects
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, Go, JavaScript) or experience guiding technical implementation through prototypes and design documents
• Experience developing or influencing the deployment of security automation, posture management, or detection systems
• Experience designing secure architectures in a major public cloud platform (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP), with an ability to translate those patterns into AWS-native designs
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Hands-on experience with AWS security services (e.g. IAM, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, KMS), or ability to rapidly apply equivalent experience from other platforms in an AWS context
• Familiarity with adversary behaviours and detection frameworks (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK, SIGMA)
• Experience supporting enterprise customers across regulated or high-trust environments such as finance, energy, or government
• Prior experience designing or contributing to security automation mechanisms at scale
• Strong understanding of cloud-native security principles, threat modelling, and secure design patterns and demonstrated ability to collaborate and deliver results across organisational and technical boundaries
