Security Engineer, AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT)

Amazon Web Services, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Security Incident Response professional to lead operations and help customers build scalable threat detection and incident response capabilities in the cloud. You will work with AWS service teams to innovate and deploy secure, automated responses.

Responsibilities include designing automated security workflows, mentoring teams, and providing deep technical expertise during security events. On-call availability is required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or 2+ years IT Security experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee incident response operations.
• Become a deep technical resource that earns the trust of customer stakeholders during a security event.
• Collaborate with teams to build and deploy threat detection and incident response capabilities.
• Design, build, and deploy automation for security operations and incident response on AWS.
• Contribute to internal builder projects to develop new consulting engagement models.
• Develop content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers.
• Mentor consultants, partners, and customers to raise security standards.
• On-call required.

Skills

Scripting

Programming

Security code review

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

Do you want to work on planetary scale incident response solutions in the cloud? Are you skilled at performing Security Incident Response activities and helping customers build threat detection and incident response capabilities using highly scalable computing architectures? Are you excited to help customers respond to security incidents and automate security operations giving them unprecedented capability and agility? Do you enjoy working on fast-paced complex projects focused on game changing business outcomes for customers globally? As a member of the AWS Customer Incident Response Team in the AWS Security organization, you will have the opportunity to help customers respond to security incidents and pioneer technically superb security solutions to help customer operate securely in the cloud. Building on those experiences you'll collaborate with AWS service teams on new features, innovate with new technologies, and explore new challenges.

Key job 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 that include Amazonians, partners, and customers 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.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience