AWS Security Operations/Incident Response Engineer, US Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Security is seeking a capable Security Engineer to respond to incidents, coordinate cross-team responses, and build tooling for rapid and scalable defense. You will communicate across audiences about sensitivity levels and drive best practices across development, cryptography, and security operations.

On-call duties are included as part of the role. The position emphasizes protecting national security infrastructure while maintaining AWS cloud resilience and trust for GovCloud and ADC

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or above, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Experience with AWS products and services

Responsibilities

• Respond to security incidents and prevent recurrence.
• Coordinate responses to security events across teams.
• Build security tooling for internal use to enable fast, scalable operations.
• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences about sensitivity levels.
• Promote security best practices across development, cryptography, and operations.
• Fulfill regular on‑call responsibilities.

Skills

TS/SCI with Polygraph

Incident response

Security engineering

On-call readiness

Education

Associate’s degree or above

GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler)

GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials)

Security+

Tools

AWS products and services

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtual infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start‑ups to enterprises, run their operations and applications on AWS’s multi‑tenant infrastructure. Governmental organizations are also looking to and depending on AWS for cloud solutions and services.

Key job responsibilities

• Confidently and intelligently respond to security incidents, and proactively consider how to prevent the same type of incidents from occurring in the future.
• Design and coordinate cohesive responses to security events that involve multiple teams across the organization.
• Build security utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow Security Engineers to operate at high speed and wide scale.
• Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of sensitivity, and multiple audiences.
• Recognize, adopt and instill the best practices in security engineering fields throughout the organization: development, cryptography, network security, security operations, incident response, security intelligence.
• Fulfill regular on‑call responsibilities.

A day in the life

Your day opens with a scan of overnight security telemetry across GovCloud and U.S. ADC regions, where you triage alerts and pull threads on anything anomalous. When an incident surfaces, you move fast: analyzing logs, running forensics, and coordinating a cohesive response across multiple teams while keeping leadership informed in clear, risk‑framed language. Between investigations, you build tooling that lets your fellow engineers detect and respond at greater speed and scale. You weigh technical risk against business needs, instill security best practices org‑wide, and share on‑call duty. Thinking like both attacker and defender, you protect the infrastructure our national security customers depend on.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, training, and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or above, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS products and services

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Herndon - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually