Amazon Security Engineer AWS Cloud Response 

Australia, Victoria, Melbourne 

140731492

The team manages the security and availability of AWS Cloud services. We operate on the ‘AWS’ side of the Shared Responsibility Model to ensure “Security of the Cloud” and to protect our customers. This role requires engineers to work tactically with both internal and external stakeholders to solve security challenges at massive scale, and to think strategically to develop and implement changes to drive automation, scalability and continuous progress for the organization.Key job responsibilities- Communicate the state of these issues to various audiences, both technical and non-technical, at various levels of seniority (up to and including the AWS Chief Information Security Officer).- Demonstrate high capacity for managing priorities appropriately while remaining productive and effective, with tolerance for context switching and interruptions
- Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities during the team's working hours and in support of the global team's on-call weekend rotationA day in the life
This position supports AWS with security operations and incident response activities. You will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating security response activities for all AWS products and services. You will drive security related issues to resolution across numerous service teams, interacting directly with those teams and other AWS Security engineers.
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- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or 3+ years’ equivalent technology experience.
- 3+ years or more of proven experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security.
- Understanding of best practices across multiple security disciplines/domains.

- 2+ years or more of proven experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security.
- 2+ years of scripting/coding experience in any language (including Bash/PowerShell scripting). Previous experience in Python scripting would be ideal.