Senior AWS Security Incident Response Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer to lead incident response for our National Security program. The role blends log analysis, forensics, tooling development, and risk assessment to protect AWS infrastructure used by national security customers.

You will work with multiple teams, balance technical risk with business needs, and communicate mitigations to leadership. A US citizen with TS/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or above.
• GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Responsibilities

• Confidently and intelligently respond to security incidents, and proactively consider how to prevent the same type of incidents from occurring in the future.
• Design and coordinate cohesive responses to security events that involve multiple teams across the organization.
• Build security utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow Security Engineers to operate at high speed and wide scale.
• Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of sensitivity, and multiple audiences.
• Recognize, adopt and instill the best practices in security engineering fields throughout the organization: development, cryptography, network security, security operations, incident response, security intelligence.
• Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities.

Skills

Incident response

Security analysis

Threat detection

Cryptography

Network security

Malware analysis

Forensics

Security operations

Incident response

Security intelligence

Education

Associate's degree or above

Tools

AWS products and services

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer to lead incident response for our National Security program. The role blends log analysis, forensics, tooling development, and risk assessment to protect AWS infrastructure used by national security customers.

You will work with multiple teams, balance technical risk with business needs, and communicate mitigations to leadership. A US citizen with TS/SCI clearance is required.