Security Engineer, AWS Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a high-speed Security Engineer who has a strong passion for security-at-scale. You will be part of a team focused on active defense, which detects and mitigates security incidents without a human in the loop.

You will directly improve security for large scale complex cloud solutions.

You will work with data scientists and engineers to design, test, and implement detection and mitigation controls for Amazon. You’ll function as a data analyst, extracting knowledge from raw data, and answering functional questions about the ‘texture’ of the data as well. You will work with existing threat intelligence and incident response teams to identify and codify attacker and analysis methodology into automated analyses.

You will have access to amazing amounts of security-relevant data sources, as well as virtually unlimited resources to process that data. While experience with AWS is nice, its more important to have a good handle on security detection and response controls, and ability to code.

You will balance long-term strategic thinking and are committed to getting things done.

If you like searching for needles in haystacks of needles, think sigmoid functions are neat, and can fend off hordes of rampaging datasets with your coding-fu, we’d love to hear from you.

About the team
Diverse Experiences

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Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

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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.

Mentorship & 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.- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language
- Understanding of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by threat actors or groups
- Knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow)- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- Experience of developing detections in enterprise environments.

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