21 hours ago
Melbourne, AustraliaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Lead security onboarding and assurance for region-specific AWS cloud services and regional infrastructure.
- Engineer and automate security-control onboarding, validation, evidence collection, policy testing, reporting, and risk-reduction mechanisms.
- Review technical designs, architectures, code, configurations, documentation, and structured data schemas and transformations against regional security requirements.
- Translate security requirements into technical baselines, control objectives, implementation patterns, and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Develop reusable security tooling, secure data-transfer patterns, guardrails, and reference implementations.
- Conduct security assessments of data-flow controls and integrate automated assurance with audit frameworks and continuous monitoring.
- Build security metrics, dashboards, and alarms; investigate security events and non-conformance and implement corrective solutions.
- Apply Australian security frameworks including ISM, PSPF, and DSPF to engineer security baselines and controls.
- Evaluate generative AI, AI agents, and multi-agent workflows while maintaining security controls and human oversight.
- Provide customer-facing technical documentation and strategic security guidance to customers, engineers, and service teams.
- Partner with global AWS service teams on product improvements, scalable solutions, and security feature requests.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and improve operational mechanisms based on security events.
Requirements
- Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance and successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment.
- Knowledge of industry security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
- Non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language.
- Non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks with command-line tools.
- At least 3 years of IT security experience.
- Experience securing cloud software services and understanding scalability, performance, and reliability design.
- Experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- Preferred: at least 2 years of combined experience in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
- Preferred experience with security activities across the SDLC, application security architecture, security code reviews, security testing, incident response, or security infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with Big Data, DevOps, security, systems administration, software development, cloud technology, automation, version control, threat modeling, penetration testing, or Kafka.
- Experience working directly with security and engineering teams is preferred.
Benefits
- Relocation support is offered for candidates moving from other Australian states to Melbourne.
- AWS training and certification support, internal learning platforms, mentorship, and career-development resources.
- Subsidised private health insurance, salary continuance, and life insurance at no cost to employees.
- Up to 52 weeks of military differential pay for eligible Australian employees taking defence reserve leave.
- Free 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families.
- Family-building benefits including fertility treatment, adoption support, surrogacy, and parenting coaching.
- Amazon Extras and employee discounts across retail, fitness, travel, and lifestyle partners.
- Flexible work-life culture and inclusion programs are provided.
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About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.