Amazon Senior Application Security Engineer SHINE 

United States, Texas, Arlington 

305840843

AWS Security is looking for a Senior Application Security Engineer to help validate that our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering and addressing security issues, building security automation, and quickly reacting to new threat scenarios. You will work with Amazon builders to create secure-by-default solutions. You will have the opportunity to learn from, and be mentored by, those who are building and securing our cutting-edge services.Key job responsibilities- Design secure-by-default solutions
- Projects and research work as needed- Security guidance documentation
- Security tool development
- Security metrics delivery and improvementsA day in the life
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- BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 6 years of experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.
- Minimum of 6 years of experience with security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, or application security.

- Experience implementing security solutions at the business division level
- An understanding of network and web related protocols (such as, TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols)
- An understanding of web services
- Experience with multiple programming languages (such as, Java, C++, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc.)
- Demonstrable teamwork skills, resourcefulness and ability to work on a diverse team
- Possess self-drive to keep moving things forward even in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge (avoid “analysis paralysis”)
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive and sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.