Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com’s global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s multi-billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over a decade.

The AWS IT Security team is responsible for the security and availability of all cloud and mobile products and services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, Amazon Appstore, Cloud Drive and others. Our team works with business stakeholders to solve security challenges at massive scale, and builds tools to automate the auditing and operation of AWS infrastructure. We are looking for software and systems professionals to join us and help us continue to raise the security bar for cloud computing.

This position supports AWS security engineers and technical program managers with security operations and incident response activities. You will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating security response activities for all AWS products and services. You will drive security related issues to resolution across numerous service teams, interacting directly with those teams and other AWS Security engineers.
You will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of disparate tasks which may include small-project and software development work. This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your duties.
Responsibilities:
· Proactively support knowledge sharing within the team and across the company
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· Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon
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· Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for extreme context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective
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· Partner with teams throughout the Company
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· Develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk· Security metrics delivery and improvements
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· Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative work
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

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. Amazon’s 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.
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· Minimum of 2 years or more of demonstrated experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security.
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· Minimum of 2 years experience on a Security Operations team, especially experience coordinating responses to security incidents.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us .