Security Engineer - Hardware, Firmware, Virtualization, Secure Hardware And Foundational Techno[...]

Amazon.com, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Security Engineer, where your expertise will help secure foundational platforms and innovative technologies. This role offers the opportunity to conduct security reviews, perform penetration testing, and provide technical guidance across diverse engineering teams. You will be part of a collaborative environment that values career growth and mentorship, ensuring that you can continuously develop your skills. With a focus on maintaining high security standards, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of cloud computing. If you are passionate about security and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Career advancement opportunities

Mentorship programs

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Work-life balance initiatives

Training and development resources

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Security Engineering and supporting engineering projects.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization security and hardware security.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security reviews for hardware including servers and devices.
• Perform penetration testing and vulnerability research.

Skills

Security Engineering

Virtualization Security

Hardware Security

Penetration Testing

Threat Modeling

Technical Communication

Risk Assessment

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

Master in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Core Services

Windows Security

Linux Security

Hypervisor Security

Job description

Security Engineer - Hardware, Firmware, Virtualization, Secure Hardware And Foundational Technologies Team

Job ID: 2874718 | Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services.

Help us protect not only the Amazon Security (AmSec) cloud computing environment but all of our customers as well! Since 2006, our great team at AmSec has been enabling our customers to bring great ideas to life in ways that aren’t possible in traditional IT environments. With AmSec you can flexibly harness compute, storage, security, and other services from across the globe as your business demands them.

Amazon Security is working on security issues for a wide variety of platforms and technologies including cloud services, Internet of things (IoT), identity and access management, mobile devices, virtualization and custom hardware, all operating at massive scale. Similarly, our highly collaborative team is committed to each team member’s growth as our business grows.

As a part of the Secure Hardware and Foundational Technologies group, we help Amazon launch brand new products and invest in emerging technologies securely. We are looking for a technically deep Senior Security Engineer to help secure our foundational platforms such as OS kernels, virtualization, device emulation, firmware and hardware. You will be responsible for conducting security reviews, threat modeling, developing tooling that will help detect security issues at scale and hands-on security evaluations (pen-testing).

The successful candidate must be comfortable diving into complex engineering discussions, and leveraging deep security expertise to ensure proper risk assessment and threat analysis is performed. You will provide crystal-clear technical direction and risk mitigation guidance for diverse engineering and business leaders at all levels.

By applying your hard-earned years of practical security engineering expertise in projects related to enterprise networking, hardware-rooted security, operating system hardening, and cloud-scale administrative infrastructure, you will literally shape the future of cloud computing.

You are expected to be strong in multiple domains and provide significant contributions to the IT Security team and to multiple groups throughout AmSec. Security engineers are expected to develop elegant solutions to complex business problems and apply appropriate technologies while following security engineering best practices. You are also expected to mentor more junior engineers and be a security thought leader for the organization.

You should foster constructive dialogue and seek resolution when confronted with discordant views. Engineers in this role are expected to participate fully in the planning of the IT Security team's work and constantly seek opportunities for process improvement. They should also have a deep understanding of at least one specialty for which they are a sought out resource (both within AmSec and by groups throughout Amazon), while having an understanding of the application of information security in a broad range of technical areas.

You will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of disparate tasks which may include project and software development work. This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your duties.

Key job responsibilities

1. Security reviews for hardware including servers and devices.
2. Penetration testing & vulnerability research
3. Threat modeling.
4. Security training and outreach to internal development teams.
5. Security guidance documentation.
6. Assistance with recruiting activities.

About the team
Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Extensive experience in Security Engineering or Development of Security capabilities, supporting engineering projects from concept to delivery, and 2 years in two or more of the following technical categories: Virtualization security (Xen, KVM, QEMU) - Hardware security (PCB, JTAG, UART, SPI, ROM, microcode, custom ASIC/FPGA) - x86 and/or ARM chipset and firmware security (TPM, UEFI, TrustZone, Secure Boot, JTAG, PCIe) - Physical security testing at the machine level
- Security testing of compute platforms (Server, PC or Mobile) - Working with diverse physical tamper resistance and/or tamper detection techniques

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MS in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Demonstrated ability to prepare technical specifications and executive-ready communications
- Experience using AWS core services (EC2, S3, IAM, Kinesis, Lambda, KMS, VPC, etc)
- Experience designing for relevant security standards (TCG, IEEE, NIST, FIPS, PCI, ISO 28000 series)
- Experience designing for crypto security (e.g. certificate handling and PKI, attestation, TPM/HSM)
- Expert knowledge of Windows, Linux, and hypervisor security (especially in cloud environments)
- Expert knowledge of common security-relevant protocols (e.g. SSH, TLS, DNS, DHCP, NTP, ICMP)

Posted: September 13, 2024 (Updated about 4 hours ago)