AWS Team Security and Compliance Engineer

Applied Information Sciences (AIS) is a mission-driven team passionate about making a difference. They are seeking an AWS Team Security and Compliance Engineer to support federal customers with a focus on architecture and infrastructure, managing security assessments, implementing policies, and overseeing security tools and services.

Responsibilities:

• Owns and manages the development of InfoSec engineering designs and implementation
• Identifies security issues and risks, and develop mitigation plans for standards for cloud implementations
• Architect, design, implement, support, and evaluate security-focused tools and services
• Oversee assessment and mitigation of system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle; validation of system security requirements definition and analysis; establishing system security designs
• Supports implementing security designs in hardware, software, data, and procedures and verification of security requirements
• Additional details: AWS Security provider tooling: Yes AWS IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, Security Hub, CloudTrail, CloudWatch

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience supporting cloud security, compliance, and risk management initiatives in AWS environments
• Hands-on experience implementing and monitoring AWS security controls, including IAM, network security, logging, encryption, and continuous compliance tooling
• Strong knowledge of federal and DoD security frameworks and compliance requirements (e.g., NIST, RMF, FedRAMP, DoD cloud policies)
• Experience supporting audits, ATO packages, POA&Ms, and ongoing security operations in regulated environments
• Active Secret clearance or higher, with ability to support federal mission customers
• IAT Level II certification (DoD 8570/8140 compliant) and one or more cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems