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# Security Engineer III

- **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:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_amazon6-10504090

## About the Role

Position Requirements: 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., 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 Preferred Qualifications Please see job description and the position requirements above.

## Description

Description MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC. Offered Position: Security Engineer III Job Location: New York, New York Job Number: AMZ9971078 Position Responsibilities: 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.