Amazon Senior Security Engineer SecOps Risk 

United States, Virginia 

628297577

As a Senior Security Engineer in AWS Security Operations, you will be driving the response to complex architectural security issues in the cutting-edge technology underlying Amazon and AWS cloud computing services. You will partner with service teams developing our services, business organizations, and other security teams. You will help solve complex and systemic infrastructure security issues, acting as a subject matter expert for our organization. As a level of technical escalation, you will apply your security and business knowledge to drive improvements across our services, managing business risk and making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals.
Key job responsibilities
* Calibration of security findings and development of potential risk mitigations
* Work in tandem with internal Amazon and AWS service teams to improve internal and external services.
* Partner with other AWS Security Engineers to implement cross-team solutions
* Influence service teams across Amazon to develop systems and processes with security best practices.
* Projects and research work as neededAbout the team
Diverse Experiences
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- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience working on security team or 7+ years’ equivalent technology experience.
- Experience with security architecture and threat modeling.
- Incident handling/security response experience

- CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) or CFR (CyberSec First Responder) or Cloud+ or CySA+ (CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst) or GCED (GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender) or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or PenTest+
- Proven experience with identity and access management, network security, adversary methodologies, and/or threat intelligence.