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# Security Engineer III - AMZ9971078

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $175,843.0 - $236,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Distributed Systems, PCI Data Security Standards, Cloud Services, Cloudformation, Information Technology, Opsworks, Terraform
- **Published:** August 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10504090/security-engineer-iii-amz9971078

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Bachelor's degree and five years of experience. Must have five years of experience in the following skills: (1) threat modeling and security risk assessment of cloud services and distributed systems; (2) designing and implementing Service Control Policies, AWS Config Rules, or CloudFormation Guard policies; (3) developing preventative and detective security controls for cloud infrastructure; and (4) implementing governance controls aligned to compliance frameworks including NIST, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, or GDPR. Must have three years of experience in the following skills: (5) experience with cloud architecture and infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar tools; and (6) security policy-as-code
development and automation., Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Bachelor's degree and five years of experience. Must have five years of experience in the following skills: (1) threat modeling and security risk assessment of cloud services and distributed systems; (2) designing and implementing Service Control Policies, AWS Config Rules, or CloudFormation Guard policies; (3) developing preventative and detective security controls for cloud infrastructure; and (4) implementing governance controls aligned to compliance frameworks including NIST, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, or GDPR. Must have three years of experience in the following skills: (5) experience with cloud architecture and infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar tools; and (6)
security policy-as-code development and automation.#0000

## Description

Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Identity teams to define and design controls and governance capabilities. Understand and represent how enterprises think about and organize their risk and compliance posture in the cloud. Combined with a deep understanding of security, performance, resiliency, and cost concerns associated with the entire portfolio of AWS services, threat model, define and design a scalable set of preventative and detective controls that can be audited and evolved over time.


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