Amazon Security Engineer Incident Response Team SIRT 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

685267831

SIRT Security Engineers are unique individuals prepared to relentlessly resolve security issues by gathering and analyzing event data and conducting root-cause analysis. With your technical expertise, you will be solving security challenges at scale, working to protect the applications powering the most sophisticated e-commerce platform ever built. We value broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of forensics, malware analysis, network security, application security, threat hunting, and threat intelligence.Key job responsibilities
- Assisting in the development of pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.- Working alongside and mentoring Information Security engineers to improve security, reduce and quickly address risk.- Keeping your knowledge and skills current with the rapidly changing threat landscape.
- Participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
A day in the life
About the team
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- Experience scripting with Python, Perl, Bash or PowerShell
- Experience with common security monitoring, log analysis and forensic tools
- Experience in one or more of the following domains: access- control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security
- GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+
- Experience with AWS products and services