Senior Security Engineer, AWS Security

Overview

Job ID: 3088343 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers worldwide. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive scale. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises, run their operations and applications on AWS’ multi-tenant infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure.
• Work with data scientists, software development engineers, and other security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions.
• Develop services that proactively protect AWS customers, both internally and externally, using the full power and breadth of AWS technologies.
• Operate with a team of industry-leading security experts to manage and continuously improve security programs and processes for personnel security, physical and logical access, education, awareness and training, assurance, and cybersecurity.
• Engage with senior levels of government agencies, commercial institutions, and AWS leadership, including interaction with CISOs, CTOs, their staffs, and AWS senior leadership.
• Mentor junior engineers and data scientists through one-on-one mentoring and code reviews in a collaborative environment that values knowledge sharing.

Team and Culture

About the team and culture: diverse experiences are valued, and candidates are encouraged to apply even if not meeting all preferred qualifications. AWS Security emphasizes inclusion, continuous learning, and mentorship.

Why Amazon Security

Security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. The organization maintains a high bar for security across all products and services and offers opportunities to build experience across cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Affinity groups promote inclusion, empower employees, and foster collaborative teams. Innovation is driven by diverse perspectives and voices.

Training & Career Growth

Continuous knowledge sharing, training, and career-advancing resources help you develop into a well-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

Aim for work-life harmony with flexibility in the working culture to support you at work and at home.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive experience performing security investigations, penetration testing, and/or incident response in large organizations.
• In-depth understanding of security threats; hands-on experience detecting and defending against cyber attacks; experience using big data analytics and orchestration to address security challenges.
• Ability to develop code with at least one modern language (e.g., Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust) and experience in security code review; demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g., tech lead, security architecture for a product or system, leading technical components of security projects) and experience coaching junior security engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS in a STEM-related field. Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow).
• Awareness of current cybersecurity threats, actors and techniques; experience with data science, big data analytics technology stacks, analytic development for endpoint and network security, and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Kinesis).
• Strong sense of ownership with a collaborative approach to overcoming challenges and influencing organizational change.

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