Automation-Driven Cloud Security Response Engineer II

Amazon Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

9 hours ago

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Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a highly skilled security engineer for the AWS Cloud Security Response team. You will apply security judgment, work hands-on with service code and cloud infrastructure, and build automation to scale responses to security issues.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with engineering teams to secure AWS services and protect customers. You will own security issues from identification to resolution, reproduce vulnerabilities, analyze data, and communicate

Responsibilities

Identify recurring security patterns across AWS services and drive proactive solutions that address root causes and prevent classes of issues.
Build automation to scale incident response procedures, improving efficiency and reducing manual effort across the team’s global operations.
Own and drive security issues from identification through resolution, bringing informed risk assessments and security judgment to every engagement with service teams.
Independently reproduce and validate reported security issues to develop a deep understanding of the vulnerability, its exploitability, and its potential customer impact.
Investigate and analyze security data across multiple sources to scope the impact of security issues and inform remediation priorities.
Develop and validate remediations through hands-on code engagement, partnering with service teams to close security issues through code.
Communicate the state of security issues to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of seniority, up to and including the AWS Chief Information Security Officer. Escalate when the pace of resolution does not match the impact to customers.