Flexible Cloud Application Security Engineer

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s AWS Security team seeks an Application Security Engineer to validate that services, applications, and websites meet the highest security standards. You will analyze security, address issues, and build security automation while collaborating with internal development teams.

You will contribute across planning, mentoring others, and driving process improvements, with opportunities to learn from experts building cutting-edge services and to advance your career in cloud security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, 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 a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Application security reviews conducted across software and services.
• Penetration testing to identify and address security gaps.
• Projects and research work as needed to advance security posture.
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams.
• Security guidance documentation and best practices publishing.
• Security tool development to automate findings and processes.
• Delivery of security metrics and continuous improvements.

Skills

Python

Security code review

Penetration testing

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Networking knowledge

Linux/Unix

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS security tools

OWASP

Job description

Amazon’s AWS Security team seeks an Application Security Engineer to validate that services, applications, and websites meet the highest security standards. You will analyze security, address issues, and build security automation while collaborating with internal development teams.

You will contribute across planning, mentoring others, and driving process improvements, with opportunities to learn from experts building cutting-edge services and to advance your career in cloud security.