Amazon Application Security Engineer SDO AppSec EMEA 

United Kingdom, England, London 

460628483

As a Security Engineer, you will work closely with software development teams to help design, build, and review secure services. You will support efforts such as identifying security issues in code and architecture, implementing security tooling, and contributing to frameworks that enable secure software development at scale.This role is ideal for someone with strong technical fundamentals in application security and a desire to grow their expertise across security domains. You should be comfortable diving deep into technical problems, collaborating with engineers across teams, and applying your knowledge to real-world security challenges. You will be encouraged to continuously learn and develop your skills.Key job responsibilities
- Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
- Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Javascript.
- Assist in building and maintaining security automation tools to improve coverage and reduce manual efforts.
- Adversarial security analysis through tooling and manual techniques to identify vulnerabilities.- Security architecture and design guidance.
- Investigate and help resolve security issues, proposing creative solutions where standard approaches may not apply.
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- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or equivalent years of engineering experience.

- Information security professional certifications
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Have experience building and securing complex AWS architecture.