Incident Response Security Engineer: Threat Hunting & Forensics

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon is seeking qualified Security Engineers to join our Information Security team and work within the Amazon Security Incident Response Team (SIRT).

SIRT Security Engineers respond to security events, conduct threat analysis and provide security services to safeguard highly sensitive data. They work hands-on with detection systems and vulnerability analysis tools to respond to potential threats to Amazon systems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a non-internship context.
• 2+ years troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship).
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship).

Responsibilities

• Responding to security incidents, and coordinating a cohesive response involving multiple teams across Amazon.
• Providing security engineering solutions and support during customer-facing incidents, proactively considering the prevention of similar incidents from occurring in the future.
• Assisting in the development of pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.
• Identifying and recommending solutions that improve or expand Amazon's incident response capabilities.
• Working alongside and mentoring Information Security engineers to improve security, reduce and quickly address risk.
• Evaluating the impact of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research to Amazon, coordinating response as necessary across affected teams.
• Keeping your knowledge and skills current with the rapidly changing threat landscape.
• Participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Skills

Scripting

Log analysis

Troubleshooting

Security concepts

Command line

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

AWS knowledge

Job description

Amazon is seeking qualified Security Engineers to join our Information Security team and work within the Amazon Security Incident Response Team (SIRT).

SIRT Security Engineers respond to security events, conduct threat analysis and provide security services to safeguard highly sensitive data. They work hands-on with detection systems and vulnerability analysis tools to respond to potential threats to Amazon systems.