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    Infrastructure Security Engineer

    Technology
    Amazon Web Services, Inc.
    Virginia, Herndon, 20170
    Permanent
    Competitive
    Hybrid

    Job Description

    Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Security Hardware Engineer to design, implement, and harden infrastructure security for large-scale cloud platforms. You will architect secure hardware and network controls for AWS data centers, integrate security features into infrastructure services, and drive end-to-end threat modeling and risk assessments. Partner with engineering teams to embed security by design, automate controls, and improve monitoring and incident response. In AWS's customer-obsessed, high-ownership culture, you'll tackle complex global challenges, learn cutting-edge cloud technologies, and raise the security bar at massive scale.

    Responsibilities

    • Design and implement secure hardware and infrastructure controls for AWS data centers

    • Architect and harden network security, including segmentation, firewalls, and VPNs

    • Conduct threat modeling, risk assessments, and security design reviews for infrastructure services

    • Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security by design into new and existing systems

    • Automate security controls, monitoring, and compliance checks at scale

    • Analyze security telemetry and support incident detection and response improvements

    • Develop and maintain security standards, patterns, and best practices for infrastructure

    • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to remediate vulnerabilities and reduce risk Required Skills

    • Infrastructure security engineering

    • Network security

    • Firewalls and VPNs

    • Linux/Unix administration

    • Secure hardware design

    • Cloud security (AWS)

    • Scripting (Python, Bash)

    • Identity and access management

    • Security monitoring and logging

    • Threat modeling

    Posted on September 21, 2026

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