Cloud Security Incident Response Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Australia; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd in Australia is seeking an experienced Security Incident Response Engineer to lead incident response operations, detect threats, and help customers automate security workflows at cloud scale.

You will collaborate with AWS service teams, design scalable security solutions, mentor teams, and participate in on-call rotations to protect customers across AWS workloads.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review experience (non-internship).
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or 2+ years IT Security experience.
• Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks via command line tools.
• Experience in areas such as incident response, secure infrastructure, threat modeling, or cloud security.
• Knowledge of general AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee incident response operations.
• Become a deep technical resource trusted by customer stakeholders before, during, and after a security event.
• Collaborate with 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.
• Contribute to internal builder projects to develop new consulting engagement models and capabilities for customers.
• Develop high-quality content like automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to assist consultants, partners, and customers.
• Innovate on behalf of customers by translating ideas into actionable results.
• Mentor and invest in consultants, partners, and customers to raise the bar.
• On-call required.

Skills

Scripting

Programming

Security code review

Troubleshooting

AI tools knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd in Australia is seeking an experienced Security Incident Response Engineer to lead incident response operations, detect threats, and help customers automate security workflows at cloud scale.

You will collaborate with AWS service teams, design scalable security solutions, mentor teams, and participate in on-call rotations to protect customers across AWS workloads.