Cloud Security Operations Engineer - AWS Incident Response

Amazon Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services UK Limited in London is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to lead responses to security incidents across AWS.

You will design cohesive responses, build internal tools, and mentor staff while balancing technical and business risk.

The role requires strong knowledge in cryptography, network security, software security, incident response, and on-call duties.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience implementing security solutions at the business division level or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Triage/assess security issues and engage with internal service teams to ensure timely remediation of issues, escalating internally as necessary to ensure appropriate levels of urgency and engagement.
• Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon.
• Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective.
• Develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.
• Mentoring of junior staff and proactively share knowledge sharing within the team and across the company.
• Assist with hiring new employees
• Fulfil regular on-call responsibilities.

Skills

Networking knowledge

Incident response

Security operations

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Python

Java

C++

Go

Swift

.Net

Job description

Amazon Data Services UK Limited in London is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to lead responses to security incidents across AWS.

You will design cohesive responses, build internal tools, and mentor staff while balancing technical and business risk.

The role requires strong knowledge in cryptography, network security, software security, incident response, and on-call duties.