Amazon Security Engineer SecEng SecOps PARTS AWS 

United States, Virginia 

145341185

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.Key Aspects of the Role:
• Drive operational excellence through process improvement and automation for our internal security customers
• Participate in on-call rotation providing tier 3+ support for Security Operations
• Develop and enhance incident response workflows and tools
• Conduct research and data analysis to improve security operations
• Create and monitor metrics to measure project effectiveness and ROI• Automating and innovating security Incident Response (IR)
• Maintaining and improving production services
• Developing innovative solutions for complex customer needs
• Building scalable platforms that strengthen Amazon's security posture• Delivering innovative security solutions that delight our customers with efficiency and productivity gains
• Solving complex problems at scale by building high-quality security software
• Contributing to customer-focused security automation
• Modern coding languages; Typescript, Python, etc.
• AWS services and offeringsKey job responsibilities
- You are an experienced engineer. You engage autonomously with product and system owners to help create, build and innovate security operations.- You are able to independently make short-term vs. long-term decisions. You define clear goals and objectives. You make crisp decisions about what projects move forward and in what priority order.- You communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences. You are able to write narratives and strategic documentation.
A day in the life
- You review new and ongoing security mitigations to implement, analysing the proposed path forward and course correcting rapidly.
- You align the short term requirements with our long term investments, consistently measuring innovation impact, and proposing out-of-the box solutions.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.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

- BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, (or) 3+ years’ equivalent technology experience
- 3 + years experience building scalable incident response utilities and tools for internal use that enable your fellow Security Engineers to operate at high speed and wide scale
- 3 years’ experience with focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security
- 3 + years experience with web protocols and Linux/Unix tools and architecture
- 2+ years experience building automated tools in any of these languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, and/or Ruby

- A MS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or 5+ years’ equivalent technology experience.
- 3+ year of experience on a Security Operations team
- 3+ years building security automation solutions
- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- 3+ years with virtualization technologies, familiarity with AWS services is highly valued in particular
- 2+ years building in AWS Cloud Environment and architecture.