Amazon Security Engineer II Industry Products - Fixed 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

438344039

AWS Security is looking for a Security Engineer to design security controls and help validate that our services, applications, and emerging technologies are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering and addressing security issues, building security automation, articulating the security posture of a service, and decisively taking action to mitigate emerging threats throughout a full secure development life-cycle (SDLC).A security engineer should demonstrate strong Amazon leadership principles. This role requires the ability to foster constructive dialogue and seek resolution when confronted with differing viewpoints on security risks. Engineers in this role are expected to participate fully in the planning of the AWS Security team's work and constantly seek opportunities for process improvement.You will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills. An AWS Security engineer must have the ability to take ownership and deliver on multiple complex objectives which may include project and software development work.
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include: - Security reviews for new products, technologies, and services
- Secure design, architecture, and implementation
- Secure development life-cycle (SDLC) practices including threat modeling and security testing
- Influence decision-makers and stakeholders to achieve a consistently high security bar
- Conduct network and/or application penetration testing
- Create security guidance and documentation
- Develop security tools and automation- Lead security projects (including security reviews, tool development, and creation of new security practices) with end-to-end ownership
About the team
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- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP

- 5+ 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
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++