Amazon Security Engineer 

Ireland, Dublin 

29282652

You will have the combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of disparate tasks which may include project and software development work. This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your duties.Key job responsibilitiesDemonstrate high capacity and tolerance for context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effectiveExplore building and improving our tooling to make your own life easier and share that benefit with all our engineers globally.
Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative workKey job responsibilities
• Lead the triage and response to security incidents, assessing their potential impact on AWS systems and customers.
• Coordinate with service teams to implement rapid, effective remediation strategies.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and procedures.
• Security Operations:
• Monitor security alerts and logs to detect potential threats or anomalies.
• Conduct thorough post-incident analyses and contribute to lessons-learned documentation.
• Collaborate with other security teams to improve detection and response capabilities.
• Automation and Tool Development:
• Design and implement automation tools to enhance incident response efficiency and effectiveness.
• Continuously improve existing security tooling and processes.
• Share innovations and best practices with the global AWS security community.
A day in the life
About the team
As a Security Engineer, you will build or enhance existing automation to improve operational efficiency or generate new insights from existing data. You will identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities for automating Partner Security mechanisms across a diverse landscape of business tools, systems, and architectures. You will meet with other teams across the Global Services organization to collaborate on security mechanisms, like partner onboarding and offboarding workflows, to improve consistency and compliance throughout the organization.You will contribute to security training programs, best practices documentation, and security policies tailored for internal teams engaging with subcontracted partners. You will implement scalable processes and tooling solutions to facilitate regular audits of partner security controls and compliance standards. Additionally, you will provide technical expertise and support for ongoing security assessments of Partners and subcontractors within the SMGS business units, ensuring adherence to AWS security standardsDiverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.Mentorship & 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state
1+ 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
1+ years of programming in one of the following or similar: Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++.

Experience with AWS products and services
Experience with any combination of the following: threat modelling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
Experience with Security Engineering (building tools) and Assurance methodologies e.g. fuzzing, static and dynamic code analysis