Cloud Security Response Engineer II - AWS & Automation

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Cloud Security Response team seeks security engineers who can think strategically, assess risk, and drive engineering teams toward secure outcomes. You’ll work hands‑on to close gaps, build automation, and mentor junior engineers in a fast‑paced, AI‑augmented environment.

You will partner with service teams to validate remediations, reproduce vulnerabilities, and communicate risk across technical and non‑technical audiences.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a non‑internship role.
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or 2+ years IT security.
• Experience working across teams and influencing teams not your own.
• Experience mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers.
• Experience with cloud services, cloud infrastructure, or cloud security concepts.
• 3+ years of experience in information security, security operations, or security engineering.

Responsibilities

• Identify recurring security patterns across AWS services and drive proactive solutions that address root causes and prevent classes of issues.
• Build automation to scale incident response procedures, improving efficiency and reducing manual effort across the team’s global operations.
• Own and drive security issues from identification through resolution, bringing informed risk assessments and security judgment to every engagement with service teams.
• Independently reproduce and validate reported security issues to develop a deep understanding of the vulnerability, its exploitability, and its potential customer impact.
• Investigate and analyze security data across multiple sources to scope the impact of security issues and inform remediation priorities.
• Develop and validate remediations through hands‑on code engagement, partnering with service teams to close security issues through code.
• Communicate the state of security issues to technical and non‑technical audiences at all levels of seniority, up to and including the AWS CISO. Escalate when the pace of resolution does not match the impact to customers.

Skills

Scripting / programming

Security code review

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring / leadership

Cloud security concepts

Information security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Job description

Amazon’s Cloud Security Response team seeks security engineers who can think strategically, assess risk, and drive engineering teams toward secure outcomes. You’ll work hands‑on to close gaps, build automation, and mentor junior engineers in a fast‑paced, AI‑augmented environment.

You will partner with service teams to validate remediations, reproduce vulnerabilities, and communicate risk across technical and non‑technical audiences.