AWS Security Incident Response Engineer II

Amazon Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Security Engineer II for AWS Security Incident Response. You will respond to threat findings, evaluate risks, and help harden our security posture using AWS services.

You will develop automation, track detective controls like GuardDuty, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate across teams to protect AWS customers at scale. A UK security clearance may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Knowledge of security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
• Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language (non-internship)
• Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship)
• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
• 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
• 3+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience

Responsibilities

• Respond to threat findings that indicate unauthorized activity has occurred
• Identify, evaluate, and communicate security threats, risks and remediation for security issues
• Contribute to the development of security automation and security posture improvements
• Track and report on the effectiveness of AWS detective controls such as GuardDuty and partner products
• Develop processes and policies to increase security response effectiveness
• On-call support with periodic weekends involvement
• Hold or be able to obtain UK Government Security Clearance

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Scripting

Programming (Python/Java/C++)

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

Security tools

GuardDuty/CrowdStrike

Job description

Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Security Engineer II for AWS Security Incident Response. You will respond to threat findings, evaluate risks, and help harden our security posture using AWS services.

You will develop automation, track detective controls like GuardDuty, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate across teams to protect AWS customers at scale. A UK security clearance may be required.