Job Description

DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Web Services team is looking for a focused Security Engineer who can take on a role in responding to security issues across the largest cloud provider in the world. You must thrive in high-pressure situations, think like both an attacker and defender, and drive relevant teams to take the right actions in the right timeframes to mitigate risks.

We are looking for someone who can balance technical risks against business risks and consistently drive for the right results. You must have the passion for engineering novel solutions to complex security challenges, and recognize and fill gaps in capabilities. The ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders with competing goals is important to the success for this role. As an engineer that is part of the SecOps team, assessing issues reported by third party researchers about services with AWS.

You should have a good mix of deep technical knowledge and a demonstrated background in information security. We value broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of cryptography, network security, software security, malware analysis, forensics, security operations, incident response, and emergent security intelligence.

You should be able to accomplish most of the following:
Confidently and intelligently respond to security incidents, and proactively consider how to prevent the same type of incidents from occurring in the future.
Design and coordinate cohesive responses to security events that involve multiple teams across the organization.
Evaluate the impact to the organization of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research. Coordinate responses as necessary across affected teams to do the right thing for our customers and our organization.
Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of sensitivity, and multiple audiences.
Recognize, adopt and instill the best practices in security engineering fields throughout the organization: development, cryptography, network security, security operations, incident response, security intelligence.
Provide subject matter expertise on architecture, authentication and system security.
Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or 3+ years equivalent technology experience.
5+ years of demonstrated experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security.
2+ years experience on a Security Operations team, especially experience coordinating responses to security incidents.
Understanding of best practices in cybersecurity awareness

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years equivalent information security experience.
3+ years experience with internet security issues, cloud architectures, and threat landscape.
Experience with virtualization technologies, especially with AWS services.
Relevant industry certifications from SANS, ISC2, etc.
Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills.
Strong demonstrated knowledge of web protocols, common attacks, and an in-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture.
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously with a bias for action, critical and creative thinking
Demonstrated ability to collaborate, develop partnerships and work effectively as a member of a team
Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects in a dynamic environment.
Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both business and technical sides of the business.
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.

For more information please contact Ben Sanes at Bssanes@amazon.com