Cloud Security Incident Response Engineer

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a security engineer to join the Customer Incident Response Team. You will perform and oversee incident response operations, become a deep technical resource, design and deploy automated security operations on AWS, mentor consultants, and be on-call.

The role focuses on planetary scale incident response in cloud, collaborating with service teams, building threat detection capabilities, and contributing to security solutions at massive scale.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a non-internship setting.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years IT Security experience.
• Experience troubleshooting systems, 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 that include Amazonians, partners, and customers 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 builder 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 our consultants, partners, and customers build on the work that we deliver.
• Innovate on behalf of customers by translating your thoughts into actionable results.
• Mentor and invest in our consultants, partners, and customers to raise the bar for our customers.
• On-call required.

Skills

CSIRT experience

Security incident response

Scripting

Automation

AWS experience

Security analysis

Threat detection

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a security engineer to join the Customer Incident Response Team. You will perform and oversee incident response operations, become a deep technical resource, design and deploy automated security operations on AWS, mentor consultants, and be on-call.

The role focuses on planetary scale incident response in cloud, collaborating with service teams, building threat detection capabilities, and contributing to security solutions at massive scale.