Healthcare Security Engineer II — Data & Incident Defense

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Security's HealthSec team is hiring a Security Engineer II to protect healthcare data across Amazon's healthcare services. You will drive detection, monitoring, incident response, and risk assessments while collaborating with engineering and leadership to implement security controls.

You will work with Detection and Monitoring to improve security alerts and help secure data at design and implementation levels, with opportunities across healthcare and cloud domains.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of programming in Python, Java, C++ or similar.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate vulnerability reports, security alerts, and customer issues.
• Triage, understand, and improve security alerts with Detection and Monitoring.
• Perform risk assessments and identify security vulnerabilities in workflows.
• Advise engineering on security best practices including network security and identity management.
• Collaborate with product teams to integrate security controls.
• Support security incident investigations related to infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide after-hours support.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Threat modeling

Security monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Security's HealthSec team is hiring a Security Engineer II to protect healthcare data across Amazon's healthcare services. You will drive detection, monitoring, incident response, and risk assessments while collaborating with engineering and leadership to implement security controls.

You will work with Detection and Monitoring to improve security alerts and help secure data at design and implementation levels, with opportunities across healthcare and cloud domains.