Principal Threat Detection Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead the technical strategy for detecting and stopping sophisticated cyber threats. You will define direction, prototype cross-domain threat detection ideas, and drive initiatives across multiple teams and organizations to protect AWS customers worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, balance technical trade-offs, and advocate for new technologies to improve threat detection and mitigation at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience performing security investigations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and/or incident response.
• Experience with detection engineering and/or anomaly detection within security.
• Understanding of TTPs used by threat actors or groups.
• Knowledge of security telemetry across 2+ domains (hosts, networks, cloud, physical security).
• Ability to develop code with at least one modern language, such as Python.
• Proven ability to provide technical and strategic leadership across multiple teams and/or within a large organization.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Citizen within the EU.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an org-wide technical lead, setting technical direction, shaping long-term strategy, and increasing each team's productivity and effectiveness.
• Identify and prioritize the highest-impact security detection problems across the org, driving clarity in ambiguous spaces.
• Design and prototype new detection approaches, then drive them to production through engineering teams.
• Stay connected to all critical projects across the org, auditing technical decisions and providing guidance on work led by others.
• Mentor engineers across multiple job families and help managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Sponsor cross-org technical initiatives with partner teams across Amazon Security and AWS, driving decisions forward and unblocking teams to ensure delivery.
• Build consensus across teams on important security and technical trade-offs, driving closure and alignment toward coherent outcomes.
• Identify, evaluate, and advocate for new technologies to improve threat detection and mitigation capabilities.
• Clearly communicate security risks and technical trade-offs to business leaders and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Security investigations

Threat hunting

Incident response

Detection engineering

Telemetry analysis

Python programming

Tools

Cloud services experience

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead the technical strategy for detecting and stopping sophisticated cyber threats. You will define direction, prototype cross-domain threat detection ideas, and drive initiatives across multiple teams and organizations to protect AWS customers worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, balance technical trade-offs, and advocate for new technologies to improve threat detection and mitigation at scale.