Amazon Security Engineer AWS Cloud Response 

United States, Virginia 

160793962

The AWS Cloud Response Team manages the security and availability of AWS Cloud services. We operate on the ‘AWS’ side of the Shared Responsibility Model to ensure “Security of the Cloud” and to protect our customers. This role requires engineers to work tactically with both internal and external stakeholders to solve security challenges at massive scale, and to think strategically to develop and implement changes to drive automation, scalability and continuous progress for the organization.
Key job responsibilities- Communicate the state of these issues to various audiences, both technical and non-technical, at various levels of seniority (up to and including the AWS Chief Information Security Officer).- Demonstrate high capacity for managing priorities appropriately while remaining productive and effective, with tolerance for context switching and interruptions
- Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities during the team's working hours and in support of the global team's on-call weekend rotationA day in the life
This position supports AWS with security operations and incident response activities. You will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating security response activities for all AWS products and services. You will drive security related issues to resolution across numerous service teams, interacting directly with those teams and other AWS Security engineers.
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

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, cybersecurity, or 4+ years’ equivalent professional experience.
- 3+ years of experience on a Security Operations team, coordinating responses to security events which involve multiple teams across an organization, and programmatically preventing recurrence.
- 2+ years or more of demonstrated experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security.
- Understanding of best practices across multiple security disciplines/domains.

- 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
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Strong demonstrated knowledge of web protocols, common attacks, and an in-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture.
- 2+ years experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, JavaScript, or Java
- Possess strong security judgment, critical thinking, and leadership skills in order to build trust, collaborate with, and influence partner teams to understand security and business impacts of issues.