Cloud Security Engineer: Incident Response & Automation

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an experienced Security Engineer for the AWS Customer Incident Response Team. You will lead incident response operations, act as a trusted technical resource during security events, and help build scalable threat detection and automation capabilities across AWS services.

The role emphasizes collaboration with service teams, automation of security operations, and delivering high-quality content to customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 2+ years scripting, programming, and security code review in a non-internship role.
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or 2+ years IT security experience.
• Experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks via command line.
• Experience on-CSIRT or PSIRT teams.
• Fluency with AI tools for security tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee incident response operations.
• Be a deep technical resource earning trust before, during, and after a security event.
• Contribute to teams deploying threat detection and incident response capabilities.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions to automate security operations on AWS.
• Mentor consultants, partners, and customers to raise security capabilities.

Skills

Scripting

Programming

Security code review

CSIRT/PSIRT experience

AI tools familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

Amazon is seeking an experienced Security Engineer for the AWS Customer Incident Response Team. You will lead incident response operations, act as a trusted technical resource during security events, and help build scalable threat detection and automation capabilities across AWS services.

The role emphasizes collaboration with service teams, automation of security operations, and delivering high-quality content to customers and partners.