Cloud App Security Engineer II – Proactive Defense

VulnU; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Equity

Flexible PTO

Retirement match

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle seeks a Security Engineer II to help validate that services and applications meet top security standards. You will analyze security, address issues, and build automation while mentoring others and driving security across teams.

Expect responsibilities across threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing within AWS environments. A strong troubleshooting background and collaboration across groups are essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience.
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years IT security experience.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• 2+ years of any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience.
• Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks.
• Experience with AWS products and services.
• Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the SDLC (security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, security testing).

Responsibilities

• Application security reviews.
• Penetration testing.
• Projects and research work as needed.
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams.
• Security guidance documentation.
• Security tool development.
• Security metrics delivery and improvements.
• Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative work.

Skills

Scripting

Programming

Security review

Log analysis

Command line

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Identity management

Cryptography

System administration

AWS experience

AWS services

Education

Bachelor's in STEM

Tools

AWS services

Security tooling

Job description

Amazon in Seattle seeks a Security Engineer II to help validate that services and applications meet top security standards. You will analyze security, address issues, and build automation while mentoring others and driving security across teams.

Expect responsibilities across threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing within AWS environments. A strong troubleshooting background and collaboration across groups are essential.