Amazon Security Engineer II Physical Operations Incident Response SOC 

United Kingdom, England, London 

744538612

Security is our highest priority. As an Amazon Security Operations Center (SOC) team member, you will help secure that environment for our customers while working on cutting edge security products across a variety of platforms and technologies. This role requires engineers to work tactically, with both internal and external stakeholders, to solve security challenges at scale, and to think strategically to develop and implement changes that drive automation, scalability and continuous progress for the team.Key job responsibilities- Communicate the state of these issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders, in varying levels and roles.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency in the fields of security operations, incident response, and emergent security intelligence.
- Explore building and improving our tooling to improve global operational efficiency.A day in the life
In the morning you will take handover from the prior site. You will accept ownership of security issues presently in-flight. The issues could relate to a range of physical, logical, or technical products and services, so you will often need to learn on the go. You will engage various stakeholders, such as internal service teams, along with Amazon Security Leadership, Legal, and the leadership from the impacted service team. As the day progresses, new issues will be assigned to you based on your workload and you will be responsible for triaging them, determining their level of impact, and work towards resolving them at the appropriate pace. At the end of the day, you will document all the issues you are tracking so they can be taken over by the site relieving you. In addition to the day to day incident response work, you will act as an escalation point for the team, ensuring we are driving the appropriate outcomes. As capacity allows, you will work on strategic projects. You will support our 24x7x365 global response team with oncall coverage as required.
Amazon Security 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.In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.Training & Career GrowthWe’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 BalanceMentorship and Career GrowthWe’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.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Ability to work any shift pattern within the 24/7/365 operation including days, nights, holidays and weekends.

- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- 3+ years operating in an enterprise incident response or security operations team
- Experience with security incident response processes, tools, techniques and strategies