AWS Cloud Incident Response Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Arlington, VA is seeking an experienced security engineer to join the AWS Customer Incident Response Team. You will help customers respond to security incidents and automate security operations at cloud scale, collaborating with AWS service teams on new features and innovative security solutions.

The role requires performing incident response operations, becoming a trusted technical resource during events, and designing and deploying automated threat detection and

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or 2+ years IT Security experience.
• Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools.
• Experience working as part of a CSIRT or PSIRT.
• Fluency building AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee incident response operations.
• Become a deep technical resource that earns the trust of customer stakeholders before, during, and after a security event.
• Independently contribute to teams to build and deploy threat detection and incident response capabilities.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions to automate security operations and incident response on AWS.
• Independently contribute to internal projects to develop new consulting engagement models and capabilities for customers.
• Develop high-quality content, such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help consultants, partners, and customers build on the work delivered.
• Innovate on behalf of customers by translating thoughts into actionable results.
• Mentor and invest in consultants, partners, and customers to raise the bar for our customers.
• On-call required.

Skills

Scripting

Programming

Security code review

CSIRT/PSIRT experience

AI tools fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Command line tools

AWS products and services

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Arlington, VA is seeking an experienced security engineer to join the AWS Customer Incident Response Team. You will help customers respond to security incidents and automate security operations at cloud scale, collaborating with AWS service teams on new features and innovative security solutions.

The role requires performing incident response operations, becoming a trusted technical resource during events, and designing and deploying automated threat detection and