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Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance with the ability to successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment. More information regarding security clearances can be found at https://www.agsva.gov.au/.
The Mission - Why This Program, Why Now?
You're joining at the defining moment of one of the most significant technology programmes Australia has ever undertaken. This programme will build and operate the dedicated cloud giving Australia's national security community and its allies the capability to see more, share more, innovate and act faster than ever before.
The architectural decisions being made now - how we structure networking, implement security controls, and automate at scale - will shape how Australia's national security community operates for the next decade. You won't be inheriting someone else's design choices. You'll be making them.
Your Role - Security Specialist, Region Services
Imagine being the person who ensures that over 100 AWS services meet the rigorous security standards demanded by Australia's most critical missions. As a Security Specialist within AWS Region Services, you'll stand at the intersection of global cloud innovation and sovereign security — leading the onboarding and assurance of cloud services into one of the most consequential regional deployments in AWS history.
This isn't a role where you follow a playbook someone else wrote. You'll be the one writing it. From conducting Security Risk Assessments to designing data transfer patterns and establishing security baselines, your analytical mind and deep technical expertise will directly shape how Australia's national security community accesses and trusts cloud capability.
You'll partner with over 100 AWS commercial service teams globally — a breadth of collaboration that few security roles anywhere in the world can offer. Every engagement sharpens your expertise. Every framework you build becomes the standard others follow. Every risk you identify and resolve strengthens the security posture of an entire nation's digital infrastructure.
Your growth here isn't incremental — it's exponential. You'll work alongside industry experts, gain exposure to cloud-native technologies, enterprise gateways, and data transfer solutions, and build a career story that few can match. The mentoring, continuous learning, and collaboration baked into this team's DNA will accelerate your professional journey in ways you haven't yet imagined.
Are you ready to be the person Australia's national security community trusts to get this right?
Key job responsibilities
You'll be the security authority that bridges global AWS innovation with Australia's sovereign requirements — and the impact of your work will be felt across an entire nation's security apparatus.
Your days will be defined by leadership and ownership. You'll lead the security onboarding and assurance of region-specific cloud services, ensuring every service that enters this environment meets the operational readiness bar demanded by Australia's most sensitive missions. You'll review and contribute to technical documentation from global service teams, translating complex security requirements into clear, actionable guidance that teams worldwide can follow.
Partnership is at the heart of this role. You'll work directly with service teams and customers to establish security baselines, define control objectives, and ensure alignment with Australian security frameworks. You'll lead auditing engagements for data-flow controls, incorporating service assurance and audit frameworks that set the benchmark for secure operations.
Your technical depth will shine as you conduct thorough reviews of transfer policies, create and maintain patterns for secure data transfer, and collect evidence of key controls across AWS environments. You'll communicate security outcomes with clarity and confidence to both customers and service teams — turning complex technical findings into strategic guidance that drives optimal security outcomes.
Beyond the day-to-day, you'll identify risks and improvement opportunities, investigate non-conformance events, and work with global teams to drive product improvements and innovative solutions. You'll also participate in the on-call rotation, ensuring the security posture you've built remains resilient around the clock.
A day in the life
Your morning begins with purpose. You open your laptop knowing that the work you do today directly strengthens Australia's national security capability. Perhaps you're reviewing a new AWS service submission — dissecting its architecture, mapping data flows, and assessing whether it meets the security baselines you've helped establish. Your analytical mind spots a gap in a transfer policy; you document it clearly and reach out to the global service team to collaborate on a resolution.
Mid-morning, you're in a working session with one of the 100+ AWS commercial service teams. They're preparing a service for regional onboarding, and they need your expertise on Australian security frameworks. You help them interpret the security frameworks requirements with the confidence
After lunch, you shift to an auditing engagement. You're reviewing data-flow controls, collecting evidence of key controls, and preparing documentation. The attention to detail you bring here isn't just thoroughness — it's the foundation of trust between AWS and Australia's national security community.
Later in the afternoon, you join a cross-functional discussion about a feature request that could improve security outcomes for the entire region. You bring the customer perspective, the technical depth, and the strategic vision to articulate why this matters. Your input shapes the product roadmap.
Before you wrap up, you review customer-facing documentation you've been developing — ensuring it provides clear, strategic security guidance. You reflect on a day where you've collaborated globally, solved complex problems locally, and moved the needle on one of the most important technology programmes Australia has ever seen.
About the team
AWS Region Services provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of Region Services, you will contribute to the security and operational management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialised security solutions for their cloud services.
Our Region Services team redefines the way AWS designs, builds, and operates AWS regions to enable new AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Services offerings to customers across every industry and of every size, including start-ups, enterprises, and public sector organisations.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Benefits
- Learning & development - AWS training and certification support, access to internal learning platforms.
- Health, income protection and life cover - Amazon subsidises private health insurance premiums, and group salary continuance and life insurance are included at no cost to you.
- Military differential pay launching in Australia - Australian employees taking defence reserve leave may receive up to 52 weeks of military differential pay to help cover the difference in pay while serving
- Employee Assistance Program - Free, confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for you and your family - mental health, financial coaching, legal questions, and everyday life events.
- Family-building benefit - Access to Maven for fertility treatment, adoption support, surrogacy, and parenting coaching.
- Amazon Extras & employee discount - cashback and discounts across hundreds of retail, fitness, travel, and lifestyle partners.
- Five or more years of experience in security assurance roles such as cybersecurity, auditing, security architecture and design, or within public sector agencies involved in cybersecurity.
- Proven experience working in large scale governance, audit, risk and compliance programmes.
- Experience with cloud native technologies and data transfer/gateway solutions.
- Strong written and presentation communication skills.
- Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Cyber Security, IT Security Management, Security Risk Management or a related field.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and lead business partners and support teams.
- Credible coordination between technical teams and stakeholders.
- AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and AWS Certified Security – Specialty).
- Knowledge of agile development, secure software development life cycle and AWS native services.
- Ability to interpret Australian government security frameworks, policies and standards (e.g., PSPF, ISM, DSPF).
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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