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Role Overview

AWS Security is looking for a Security Engineering Lead to join the team. The role involves conducting pre‑ and post‑launch testing, offensive campaigns, threat modeling, creating and maintaining automated threat emulation solutions, and helping security and service teams incorporate offensive insights into development, deployment, monitoring, and response processes. The team collaborates with the larger Security organization and service teams to continuously validate security across the service/system lifecycle.

A day in the life

Engineers in this role must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade‑offs between short‑ and long‑term security and business goals, demonstrate resilience, and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact. They must communicate effectively, mentor peers, and regularly analyse their own performance critically. A broad understanding of the AWS business and its interconnections is required.

Key Responsibilities

- Offering recommendations and fine‑tuning findings to enhance threat mitigations, ensuring robust security measures are in place.
- Setting a high standard and generating high‑quality testing plans and reports, striving for excellence in security testing procedures.
- Conducting offensive security testing and engaging in ongoing vulnerability research to proactively identify potential risks.
- Systematically identifying vulnerabilities and meticulously tracking them to facilitate timely remediation efforts.




- Staying ahead of emerging threats by continuously testing systems and applications for vulnerabilities that may arise.
- Developing and maintaining automated solutions for emulating threats, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in threat detection.
- Providing security training and conducting outreach sessions with internal development teams to raise awareness and foster a security‑conscious culture.
- Developing comprehensive security guidance documentation, including policies, procedures, and best practices, to serve as a reference for the organization.
- Designing and building security tools tailored to the organization’s needs, enhancing the overall security posture.
- Delivering meaningful security metrics to stakeholders and continuously improving the metrics for better insight into the security landscape.

Basic Qualifications

- Minimum 7+ years of experience in delivering cyber security solutions to large enterprises or to Government customers.
- Efficient time‑management skills are required along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty.
- Proven ability to provide technical and strategic oversight for a high‑performing team of security professionals.
- Demonstrated experience creating effective security strategies that balance prevention and detection, drive risk reduction and mitigation.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master’s degree or PhD in Cybersecurity or related domain.
- Worked on large‑scale cloud programs to deliver security outcomes.

Equal Prospect Statement

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📌 Security Engineering Lead, AWS Security (Melbourne)
🏢 Amazon Web Services (AWS)
📍 Melbourne