Amazon Senior Security Engineer AWS Offensive 

United States, Washington 

418205368

We are looking for a technically deep Senior Security Engineer to help secure our foundational platforms with an emphasis on hardware. You will be responsible for conducting security reviews including hands on security evaluations (penetration testing), analyzing threat models, and developing tooling that will help detect security issues at scale.You should be comfortable diving into complex engineering discussions, and leveraging deep security expertise to ensure proper risk assessment and threat analysis is performed. You will provide crystal-clear technical direction and risk mitigation guidance for diverse engineering and business leaders at all levels. By applying your hard-earned years of practical security engineering expertise in projects related to securing hardware, you will literally shape the future of cloud computing. Along the way, we guarantee that you will learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.
Key job responsibilities
• Lead and conduct security reviews (including hardware, servers and devices)
• Penetration testing & vulnerability research
• Threat modeling
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams
• Security guidance documentation
• Assistance with recruiting activities
Diverse Experiences
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- BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Security Engineering or Development of Security capabilities, supporting engineering projects from concept to delivery, and 2 years in *two or more* of the following technical categories:
- Virtualization security (Xen, KVM, QEMU)
- Hardware security (PCB, JTAG, UART, SPI, ROM, microcode, custom ASIC/FPGA)
- x86 and/or ARM chipset and firmware security (TPM, UEFI, TrustZone, Secure Boot, PCIe)
- Security testing of compute platforms (Server, PC or Mobile)