Amazon Penetration Testing Engineer 

Spain, Community of Madrid, Madrid 

142563094

We are looking for a Penetration Testing Engineer who has a strong passion for security-at-scale. You will be on a team responsible for the delivery of continuous assessments. You will be asked to solve complex technology problems, build tools to automate your way out of manual efforts, and influence the way Amazon services respond to and mitigate threats.We are looking for a Security Engineer to help ensure our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for web application, network, and operations penetration testing. You will be responsible for automating repetitive tasks. You will be responsible for influencing Amazon services through the creation of threat mitigation plans. You will work directly with internal teams to solve challenging software problems.
Key job responsibilities
- Perform penetration testing complex proprietary software and hardware for AWS services- Write proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issue
- Provide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fix
- Partner with AWS developers to drive improvement in application security as a result of security
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- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, similar degree, or equivalent professional experience can be used in lieu of a degree.
- Minimum of 1 years of experience in security testing (Penetration testing, Vulnerability testing, Red teaming, bug hunting or CTF experience)
- Minimum of 1 years of experience with manually auditing source code (One or more of: Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Rust, C, others) to find security issues.
- Minimum of 1 years of experience scripting in Python or other equivalent interpreted languages.
- Minimum of 1 years of professional experience with security engineering practices such as in web application security, network security, authentication and authorization protocols, cryptography, automation and other software security disciplines.

- Experience with AWS technologies and services (e.g. S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM, etc.)
- Experience with bug hunting, bug bounties, capture the flag, software development
- Experience with multiple programming languages