Security Engineer II: Insider Threat & Analytics

Amazon; Arlington, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Virginia's Arlington area seeks a Security Engineer II for the Enterprise Protection Program to evaluate, investigate, and mitigate insider risks across teams. You will apply security analytics, threat modeling, and risk assessment skills to insider risk scenarios across cloud, devices, and services.

You will dive deep into data, identify trends, craft detailed technical reports, and distill complex concepts into executive summaries for leaders, while collaborating with

Qualifications

• 2+ years of IT Security experience.
• Experience implementing security solutions at the cross-team level.
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience.
• Experience with AWS products and services.

Responsibilities

• Independently dive deep into/investigate complex cyber-aligned insider threat issues.
• Perform deep dive analysis of internal and external datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and activities indicative of insider risks.
• Author comprehensive, clear summaries of complex incidents.
• Assist with identifying and driving opportunities to automate and optimize insider risk analytics, tooling, and processes.
• Identify and mitigate insider risk by collaborating with other Amazon Security teams, as well as external industry partners.

Skills

IT Security experience

Security solutions

Troubleshooting

Networking protocols

Scripting / programming

AWS products and services

Information security certification

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon in Virginia's Arlington area seeks a Security Engineer II for the Enterprise Protection Program to evaluate, investigate, and mitigate insider risks across teams. You will apply security analytics, threat modeling, and risk assessment skills to insider risk scenarios across cloud, devices, and services.

You will dive deep into data, identify trends, craft detailed technical reports, and distill complex concepts into executive summaries for leaders, while collaborating with