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# Security Hardware Engineer, Infrastructure Security - Security Products and Solutions

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $117,300.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cyber Security, Data Centers, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Runbook, Systems Integration, Beta Testing, AWS Data Analytics
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/A0EE56FB3E644DA6AC9434A4B115921F/job/

## About the Role

* 4+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
 * Experience with prototyping and implementation, * Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume

## Description

Design and engineer physical security systems for AWS data centers, including access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and related technologies

Develop technical specifications, product requirements, and build plans for security system implementations

Evaluate and recommend solutions that balance security effectiveness, cost, scalability, and operational complexity

Drive complex system integration projects across internal teams and external partners

Collaborate cross-functionally across AWS organizations to integrate security requirements into designs and standards

Contribute to the standardization of security system designs across the global data center portfolio

Develop automation solutions that improve the efficiency and reliability of security system deployment, configuration, and management

Create technical documentation, SOPs, runbooks, and training materials that enable field operations teams to support products throughout the full lifecycle

Ensure compliance with internal security standards, policies, and organizational requirements

Domestic and international travel approximately 25% of the time

A day in the life

You collaborate with your team and cross-functional partners to deliver security products and solutions across the full lifecycle. On any given day, you might be working with vendors to evaluate emerging security technologies, creating automation to streamline system configurations at scale, or troubleshooting a complex integration challenge with a partner team. You identify and communicate technical issues early, propose solutions, and work with internal partners to align on the best path forward. You seek to understand the broader business context behind the security infrastructure you build, ensuring your solutions meet both immediate needs and long-term goals. You actively seek feedback, iterate to raise the bar, and take ownership of your contributions to the team's collective knowledge and customer outcomes.

About the team

The team is a small but highly capable workforce which supports end to end lifecycle of security devices. This role is expected to own developed solutions from problem statement, to development of business requirements, through alpha and beta testing to enterprise wide deployment. This role will also create support documentation to be used by deployment teams for troubleshooting.


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