Amazon Security Engineer II Risk Compliance SRC 

United States, Texas, Austin 

652192348

In this role, you will help identify, analyze, and prioritize security risk identified through a variety of sources across Amazon. You will be part of a team of solving complex security challenges that have direct and measurable impact on our customers. Through this work, you will help drive leadership prioritization and reduce security and compliance risk.Key job responsibilities
- Validate technical approach to security checks to ensure alignment with compliance program.
- Work with security teams across SDO to understand system architecture, technical needs, and compliance requirements and make recommendations on control design.
- Lead the identification and assessment of risk areas for commonality, themes, etc.
- Provide technical guidance and recommendations on security requirements to development and operations teams, serving as a subject matter expert for security requirements.
- Create and manage remediation campaigns for identified compliance gaps, developing systematic solutions to address security issues.
- Design automation requirements for continuous compliance monitoring, developing scripts and tools to streamline compliance-related security check.A day in the life
You will help align security and compliance across Amazon to ensure our technical approach to compliance is as efficient as possible, while increasing the security bar. You will identify risk areas through a variety of security assessments, evaluations, etc and ensure these risks are mitigated.About the team
Diverse Experiences
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- 3+ 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 networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Scripting or programming experience in Ruby, Python, Shell/BASH scripting, Java, C/C++, C*, Perl, or other languages

- Understanding of cloud computing services/deployment architecture.