Application Security Engineer — AI & Cloud Security

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited in London is seeking an experienced application security engineer to join the Application Security team. You will conduct application security reviews, design secure architectures, perform threat modeling, and lead security-related projects in a fast-paced cloud-driven environment.

This role emphasizes ownership, communication, and the ability to automate security workflows using AI agents and generative AI tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
• Experience programming in Python, Java, C++, or similar OO language.
• Experience with threat modeling and risk identification techniques.
• Experience with security automation using AI/LLM.

Responsibilities

• Application security reviews.
• Secure architecture design.
• Threat modeling.
• Projects and research work as needed.
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams.
• Automating and enhancing security review processes using AI agents, LLMs, and generative AI tooling.
• Security guidance documentation.
• Security metrics delivery and improvements.
• Assistance with recruiting activities.

Skills

Networking basics

Programming languages

Threat modeling

AI/LLM automation

AWS knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited in London is seeking an experienced application security engineer to join the Application Security team. You will conduct application security reviews, design secure architectures, perform threat modeling, and lead security-related projects in a fast-paced cloud-driven environment.

This role emphasizes ownership, communication, and the ability to automate security workflows using AI agents and generative AI tooling.