Cloud Security & SOC Engineer — Flexible Hours

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 159,300 - 202,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services seeks a Security Engineer to expand the SOC and strengthen CWE program security. You will balance business and technical risk, identify IT risks, define mitigations, and drive cross-team actions to reduce risk.

The role covers Windows, cloud security, incident response, and threat intelligence, with a focus on scalable automation and security tooling. On-call duties apply.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Java, C++, or similar OO language.
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a non-internship role.
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using CLI.
• Knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP).
• Experience in Windows and Linux operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Respond to security incidents and prevent recurrence across teams.
• Design and coordinate cohesive responses to multi-team security events.
• Build security utilities and tools to enable rapid, scalable operations.
• Evaluate threats and coordinate action plans to mitigate risk.
• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences at varying sensitivity levels.
• Adopt and promote best practices of security engineering across the org.
• Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities.

Skills

Incident response

Threat modeling

Security automation

Communication

Education

Bachelors degree in STEM

Tools

Python

Java

C++

PowerShell

Linux

Job description

Amazon Web Services seeks a Security Engineer to expand the SOC and strengthen CWE program security. You will balance business and technical risk, identify IT risks, define mitigations, and drive cross-team actions to reduce risk.

The role covers Windows, cloud security, incident response, and threat intelligence, with a focus on scalable automation and security tooling. On-call duties apply.