Cloud Application Security Engineer

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited is hiring an Application Security Engineer to validate that services and applications meet the highest security standards. You will analyze security, address issues, build automation, and collaborate across teams to improve security posture.

The role demands strong programming, scripting, and troubleshooting skills, with opportunities for career growth as you learn new security disciplines within AWS.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Java, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non‑internship) experience
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non‑internship) experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or IT Security experience
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Experience in security code reviews, incident response, secure software development
• Experience with AWS products and services

Responsibilities

• Application security reviews
• Penetration testing
• Projects and research work as needed
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams
• Security guidance documentation
• Security tool development
• Security metrics delivery and improvements
• Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative work

Skills

Python

Java

Go

C++

Threat modeling

Security reviews

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or STEM

2+ years IT Security experience

Tools

Cloud security tooling

Job description

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited is hiring an Application Security Engineer to validate that services and applications meet the highest security standards. You will analyze security, address issues, build automation, and collaborate across teams to improve security posture.

The role demands strong programming, scripting, and troubleshooting skills, with opportunities for career growth as you learn new security disciplines within AWS.