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Senior Security Engineer, Security, Risk and Compliance (SRC)

Amazon
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/15/2025
Description

Amazon Security is hiring for an experienced, self-motivated Sr. Security Engineer with a background in vulnerability and risk management to join our Security, Risk and Compliance (SRC) team.

Our mission includes instilling awareness to safeguard all customer and employee data, applications, services, and assets. To accomplish this, we work with Amazon organizations to build security best practices into enterprise-wide systems. Our guidance and leadership equip our partners to maintain high security standards. Our programs stretch across all of Amazon Stores, Devices, and Others (SDO), giving you the opportunity to interact with product teams, industry specialists, security partners, and organization leaders.

In this role, you will help identify, analyze, and prioritize security risk identified through a variety of sources across Amazon. You will be part of a team of solving complex security challenges that have direct and measurable impact on our customers. Through this work, you will help drive leadership prioritization and reduce security and compliance risk.

Key job responsibilities

  • Validate technical approach to security checks to ensure alignment with compliance program.
  • Work with security teams across SDO to understand system architecture, technical needs, and compliance requirements and make recommendations on control design.
  • Lead the identification and assessment of risk areas for commonality, themes, etc.
  • Continuously prioritize risk for service teams, security teams, and executive leadership.
  • Collaborate with business/service teams to understand and confirm security assessment scope and controls design.
  • Review security controls - Logical Access, Change Management, Network Security, Cryptography, Data Privacy, Vulnerability Management etc.
  • Responsible for building and influencing security as a core competency with internal teams/partners/vendor
  • Provide technical guidance and recommendations on security requirements to development and operations teams, serving as a subject matter expert for security requirements.
  • Create and manage remediation campaigns for identified compliance gaps, developing systematic solutions to address security issues.
  • Design automation requirements for continuous compliance monitoring, developing scripts and tools to streamline compliance-related security check.

A day in the life

You will help align security and compliance across Amazon to ensure our technical approach to compliance is as efficient as possible, while increasing the security bar. You will identify risk areas through a variety of security assessments, evaluations, etc and ensure these risks are mitigated.

About The Team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & 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, training, 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

  • 5 years of experience in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
  • 4 years of experience in network, system, or software architecture; design, implementation, support, and evaluation of security-focused tools and services
  • 2 years of scripting or programming experience in Ruby, Python, Shell/BASH scripting, Java, C/C , C*, Perl, or other languages
  • 2 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: cryptography, web and network protocols, data structures and algorithms, software development, threat modeling, pen tests, or vulnerability assessments

Preferred Qualifications

  • Understanding of cloud computing services/deployment architecture
  • Experience in innovative security approaches in non-traditional IT environments
  • Experience generating automated metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
  • Experience in the development of security products

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2956048

Salary : $143,300 - $247,600

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