AWS Team Security and Compliance Engineer
About The Position
Why AIS? When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success. Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements. Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth. Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued. Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. What are we looking for? At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles. Working@AIS At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Security Engineer. Core Knowledge & Skills: Applies advanced network security, cryptography, vulnerability assessment, regulatory compliance, and access/governance principles. Work & Complexity: Conducts security assessments, handles incidents, implements policies, configures advanced security settings, and manages security devices. Quality & Independence: Conducts thorough assessments, produces clear documentation, improves practices, and works independently within project scope. Teamwork & Communication: Participates in team projects, shares knowledge, coordinates with other teams, and mentors junior staff. Consulting & Engagement: Advises internal teams, optimizes processes, evaluates technologies, and coordinates vendor support. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a AWS Team Security and Compliance Engineer. Project Summary AIS is supporting federal customer with a program focused on architecture and infrastructure.
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).
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems.
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.
Benefits
- Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
- Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
- Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
