Senior Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security, Corporate Services Security

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to protect and enhance the security of web applications. This role involves collaborating with development teams to identify vulnerabilities, develop security tools, and provide guidance on security best practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in web application security, a strong understanding of security protocols, and the ability to communicate complex security concepts to diverse audiences. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and work-life harmony while making a significant impact on security across its services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of web application security experience with expertise in threat modeling and secure coding.
• Strong knowledge of security protocols, cryptography, and cloud security.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain threat models for web applications hosted on the cloud.
• Conduct secure code reviews and develop security automation tools.

Skills

Web Application Security

Threat Modeling

Secure Coding

Identity Management

Cryptography

Penetration Testing

Cloud Security

Network Security

Java

Python

JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Equivalent work experience

Tools

AWS

Security Automation Tools

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Corporate Services Security (CPSS) is the Amazon security team aligned with Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), People eXperience & Technology (PXT), Legal and Global Communications and Community Impact (GCCI) business units.
Our Mission is to protect and safeguard Amazon's corporate services, systems, and data. Through proactive engagement with the development teams, we understand the dynamic business processes that run Amazon, and enable our stakeholders to innovate, build, and scale securely. The Product Security Team within CPSS supports a large number of applications built using AWS Services. Apart from work, we provide opportunities for our engineers to pursue projects they are passionate about while maintaining work life harmony.

Key job responsibilities

1. Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of web applications hosted on cloud
2. Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Javascript
3. Development of security automation tools
4. Adversarial security analysis using the latest tools to augment manual effort
5. Provide Security training and outreach for internal development teams
6. Provide Security architecture and design guidance to application development teams
7. Independently solve systemic, complex security problems that require novel methods or approaches
8. Influence your team's and partners' process, priorities, strategy and choices by using data to improve security outcomes
9. Provide technical and strategic guidance to senior leaders and stakeholders through effective oral and written communications

A day in the life

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing novel services. In a given day, you might be inspecting an application's code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service.
The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security specialist with one or more areas of deep expertise within application security. They will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions. They will shape the strategy of the Product Security Team and influence systemic security improvements across our service organizations. They will guide and mentor other engineers on the team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Minimum of 8 years of web application security industry experience with at least four of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, Web Application Security, cryptography, penetration testing, cloud security, mobile security, and network security
2. Intimate knowledge and understanding of security engineering, web application security, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography
3. Experience reading and writing in at least one programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
2. Demonstrated ability of judgement in assessing and prioritizing technical risk
3. Strong application security background with a focus on scalable solutions
4. Experience building and securing complex AWS architecture
5. Proven experience identifying and removing bottlenecks for your teammates, both in process and technology
6. Experience securing Finance applications
7. Proven experience shaping the strategy of a Product Security Team
8. Demonstrated experience influencing security strategy across organization