Amazon
Security & Compliance Engineer II, AWS Security Assurance Services, LLC
$138K–$202K
Austin, TX +6 · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Nashville, TN
Arlington, VA
Seattle, WA
Herndon, VA
Houston, TX
Dallas, TX - Experience
- 3+ years programming; 2+ years scripting, programming, and security code review; 2+ years troubleshooting, log analysis, or command-line task automation. Preferred: 2+ years in listed security-related areas; 5+ years as a technical specialist, including 3+ years in secure coding, software development, cloud security engineering, or related work.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or experience in IT Security.
About the job
Leads security reviews and builds automated AWS security, governance, and compliance controls for customer environments, including AI/ML workloads.
What you'll do
- Lead threat-modeling and architecture reviews, identify risks, and recommend mitigations or compensating controls.
- Build secure Infrastructure-as-Code, policy-as-code, and automated compliance monitoring, evidence collection, and remediation workflows.
- Integrate security controls with AWS and third-party tools, and prototype security and compliance solutions.
What they ask for
- 3+ years programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or a similar object-oriented language.
- 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks with command-line tools.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or experience in IT Security; knowledge of HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
Nice to have
- 2+ years in any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security.
- Experience with AWS security and governance, Infrastructure-as-Code, policy-as-code, compliance frameworks, audit evidence, or AI agentic design and MCP.
Pay
137,600.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Rego, AWS Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), Resource Control Policies (RCPs)
AI focus
Build secure controls for AI/ML workloads; preferred experience includes AI agentic design and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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