Autonomous Cloud Security Engineer (DFIR & Orchestration)

Amazon; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Security's Operational Research and Development team is building autonomous incident response at cloud scale. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will own the response playbooks, design workflows, and contribute to automated investigations that reduce manual effort.

You will mentor engineers, work with SDEs on scalability, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain automation health. Our team values directness, honesty, and inclusive collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing.
• Experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command line tools.
• Experience identifying security issues and mitigation plans.
• Experience in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Own the response playbooks and investigation methodology that power our automation platforms
• Design and implement autonomous incident response workflows: from initial triage through root cause analysis to remediation
• Build automated DFIR capabilities including log correlation, forensic evidence collection, and threat eradication at cloud scale
• Drive the security domain decisions (how to investigate, when to act, what to fix) while partnering with SDEs on platform scalability
• Participate in an on-call rotation focused on maintaining automation health, and security escalations
• Mentor engineers across the team on security domain expertise and incident response best practices

Skills

Scripting

Log analysis

Automation

Mentoring

Security strategy

Tools

SOAR

DFIR pipelines

Job description

Amazon Security's Operational Research and Development team is building autonomous incident response at cloud scale. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will own the response playbooks, design workflows, and contribute to automated investigations that reduce manual effort.

You will mentor engineers, work with SDEs on scalability, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain automation health. Our team values directness, honesty, and inclusive collaboration.