Amazon Senior Security Engineer Operational Research AWS 

United States, Virginia 

878083144

As an Operational Research (OpRes) Senior Security Engineer (SecEng) you will be expected to lead and drive operational excellence in everything we do. This includes creating sane processes, procedures and automation to improve efficiency in our day-to-day tasks and projects. You will work closely on supporting internal customers, ensuring that their needs and issues are being addressed.Development/Research
As a senior team member, you are part of an oncall rotation to provide critical, tier3+ support, for Security Operations team. You also perform research to enhance the stance of Security, and the efficiency of Operations, through metrics and various data analysis. You propose innovative new approaches to security automation and deliver at scale.Incident Response
With a background in IR, you will be integral to developing and improving incident and change management within the security space. Responsibilities include driving initiatives regarding improvements to existing tools & processes and providing feedback on new practices & procedures in order to scale with the rapid expansion of the Amazon platform and customer base.Operations Measurement
As an Operational Research Senior Security Engineer you will be expected to drive quality into the metrics we report to assist us in focusing on the areas that give us the best ROI. This includes measurement of our project plans, issues, and cycle times.Leadership & Mentoring
Key job responsibilities
- You are an experienced engineer. You engage autonomously with product and system owners to help create, build and innovate security operations.- You are able to independently make short-term vs. long-term decisions. You define clear goals and objectives. You make crisp decisions about what projects move forward and in what priority order.- You communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences. You are able to write narratives and strategic documentation.- You lead code reviews, offer design improvements, and implement secure coding best practices.A day in the life
- You review new and ongoing security mitigations to implement, analysing the proposed path forward and course correcting rapidly.
- You align the short term requirements with our long term investments, consistently measuring innovation impact, and proposing out-of-the box solutions.Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.Training & 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, (or) 6+ years’ equivalent technology experience
- 4 + years experience building scalable incident response utilities and tools for internal use that enable your fellow Security Engineers to operate at high speed and wide scale
- 3+ years experience with focus in areas such as systems, network, host and/or application security
- 4 + years experience with web protocols and Linux/Unix tools and architecture
- 5+ years experience building automated tools in any of these languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, and/or Ruby

- A MS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or 7+ years’ equivalent technology experience.
- 5+ year of experience on a Security Operations team
- 4+ years building security automation solutions
- 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
- 3+ years with virtualization technologies, familiarity with AWS services is highly valued in particular
- 2+ years building in AWS Cloud Environment and architecture.