AWS Cloud Incident Response Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is seeking an experienced Security Incident Response Engineer to join the AWS Security organization. You will help customers respond to security incidents, build threat detection, and automate security operations at cloud scale.

You will collaborate with AWS service teams on new features, mentor colleagues, and contribute to content like automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT security experience.
• Experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools.
• Experience with security activities across SDLC, threat modeling, security design, or secure coding.
• Knowledge of general AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee incident response operations
• Become a deep technical resource that earns the trust of customer stakeholders before, during, and after a security event.
• Independently contribute to teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to build and deploy threat detection and incident response capabilities.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions to automate security operations and incident response on AWS.
• Independently contribute to internal builder projects to develop new consulting engagement models and capabilities for customers.
• Develop high-quality content, such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our consultants, partners, and customers build on the work that we deliver.
• Innovate on behalf of customers by translating your thoughts into actionable results.
• Mentor and invest in our consultants, partners, and customers to raise the bar for our customers.
• On-call required.

Skills

Scripting

Programming

Security code review

Troubleshooting

Log analysis

CLI automation

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

AWS products and services

Job description

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is seeking an experienced Security Incident Response Engineer to join the AWS Security organization. You will help customers respond to security incidents, build threat detection, and automate security operations at cloud scale.

You will collaborate with AWS service teams on new features, mentor colleagues, and contribute to content like automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers.