Senior AWS Cloud Security Engineer — Detection & Automation

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Maryland; On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a security professional to help protect our cloud by researching, detecting, and mitigating threats at scale. You will develop detection prototypes and identify automation opportunities to prevent issues across services.

You will mentor teammates and advocate for new technologies while contributing to a diverse, inclusive culture that values work-life balance and ongoing learning. This role supports security across AWS products and services.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques

Responsibilities

• Research, identify, and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation.
• Develop detection prototypes for these security problems to enhance our detection capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to prevent security issues at scale.
• Mentor and develop teammates both technically and professionally.
• Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technology to research, identify, and mitigate complex risks.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Log analysis

Automation scripting

Scala

Java

Python

C/C++

Go

Vulnerability identification

Tools

GuardDuty

CloudTrail

VPCFlow

Route53 Logs

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a security professional to help protect our cloud by researching, detecting, and mitigating threats at scale. You will develop detection prototypes and identify automation opportunities to prevent issues across services.

You will mentor teammates and advocate for new technologies while contributing to a diverse, inclusive culture that values work-life balance and ongoing learning. This role supports security across AWS products and services.