Senior Security Engineer, AWS Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join their innovative team dedicated to protecting cloud infrastructure from security threats. In this pivotal role, you'll collaborate with diverse teams to develop cutting-edge security solutions that safeguard customers' trust. With a strong emphasis on mentorship and career growth, this position offers the opportunity to leverage your expertise in security investigations and detection engineering while working with advanced cloud technologies. Join a culture that values diversity and work-life balance, where your contributions will have a meaningful impact on the security landscape.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security investigations and incident response.
• Understanding of the Mitre ATT&CK framework and cloud security detections.
• Ability to develop code in modern languages like Go and Python.

Responsibilities

• Research and prioritize security problems for automation detection.
• Develop prototypes to enhance security detection capabilities.
• Mentor teammates and advocate for new security technologies.

Skills

Security Investigations

Detection Engineering

Threat Hunting

Incident Response

Mitre ATT&CK Framework

Cloud Security Detections

Network Protocols

Programming (Go, TypeScript, Python)

Tools

GuardDuty

CloudTrail

VPCFlow

IAM

CloudWatch

Lambda

EC2

RDS

S3

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Description

Come and build innovative services that protect our cloud from security threats.

Description

Come and build innovative services that protect our cloud from security threats.

As a Senior Security Engineer (SecEng), you’ll help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure. You’ll work with data scientists, software development engineers, and security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and preserves our customers’ trust in us. You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats – not many teams can say that!

Key job 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.
  
  

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

• 5+ years of experience performing security investigations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and/or incident response in the context of large organizations
• Understanding of the Mitre ATT&CK framework
• Experience developing and implementing security detections in cloud environments
• Knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow)
• An understanding of network and web related protocols (such as, TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols)
• Ability to develop code with at least one modern language such as Go, TypeScript, Python
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leveraging native cloud telemetry (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, VPCFlow, R53 Resolver Logs) for detection engineering/incident response
• Experience using common cloud services (IAM, CloudWatch, EventBridge, Lambda, EC2, VPC, RDS, S3) for security response/automation
• Experience with data science, big data analytics technology stack, analytic development for endpoint and network security, and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Glue, EMR, Spark Streaming, and Kinesis)
  
  

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2916223

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance, Information Technology, and Engineering

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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