Cloud Security Incident Response Engineer

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

Job summary

Amazon Security is seeking an experienced security engineer to scale incident response and threat detection capabilities for customers and internal teams. You will collaborate with AWS service teams on new features and automate security operations at scale.

You will work with Amazonians, partners, and customers to deliver secure cloud solutions, mentor teams, and contribute to security tooling that enhances detection and response across diverse platforms.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in non-internship roles.
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or 2+ years IT security experience.
• Experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks via command line tools.
• Experience on a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) or Product Security Incident Response Team (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 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

Scripting

CSIRT/PSIRT

A I tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

AWS services familiarity

Job description

Amazon Security is seeking an experienced security engineer to scale incident response and threat detection capabilities for customers and internal teams. You will collaborate with AWS service teams on new features and automate security operations at scale.

You will work with Amazonians, partners, and customers to deliver secure cloud solutions, mentor teams, and contribute to security tooling that enhances detection and response across diverse platforms.