Lead Security / Policy Engineer
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Practices
- Agile
We are seeking a Lead Security / Policy Engineer to architect the policy engine, Cedar policy schema, and InfoSec review processes for an enterprise-grade Agent Development Platform. This production-grade, cloud-native ecosystem enables engineering teams to define, orchestrate, deploy, and observe AI agents at scale, standardizing agent development across the organization using LangGraph and Strands Agents on AWS Agent
Core Runtime.
centers on authorization at the agent boundary, ensuring agents securely advertise and invoke each other's capabilities while enforcing consistent security, quality, and governance standards.
Lead the architecture of the policy engine and Cedar policy schema design across the platform Define authorization models that govern agent-to-agent capability advertisement and invocation Drive enterprise InfoSec review processes and ensure alignment with ARB requirements Establish default-deny authorization patterns for agent interactions Integrate identity-aware authorization using O
Auth 2.0, JWT, and MS Entra Build and maintain policy-as-code patterns to standardize governance across agent development teams Oversee audit logging mechanisms for policy decisions and enforcement outcomes Guide staged rollout strategies for policy enforcement, from monitoring to full enforcement Collaborate with engineering teams to reason about trust boundaries between interacting agents
5+ years of experience in cloud security or identi