Amazon Senior Penetration Testing Engineer 

Portugal, Miragaia e Marteleira 

718005470

We are looking for a Senior Penetration Testing Engineer to help ensure our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for application and/or hardware penetration testing. You will be responsible for automating repetitive tasks using various scripting languages. You will be responsible for mentoring and leading other engineers to deliver complex penetration tests and vulnerability assessments. You will be expected to drive automation, tooling, efficiency and advance the teams penetration testing capabilities. 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 and security problems.
Key job responsibilities
* Perform penetration testing complex proprietary software and hardware for AWS services
* Manually audit the source code of web services and software authored in house by Amazon
* 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 review engagements
* Provide actionable long-term risk mitigation guidance to internal and external stakeholder
* Conduct independent vulnerability research pertaining to AWS relevant technologies
Diverse Experiences
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- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, degree in similar technical field, or equivalent professional experience can be used in lieu of a degree.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in security testing (Penetration testing, Vulnerability testing, Red teaming, bug hunting, CTF experience, or related field).
- Minimum of 5 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 5 years of experience scripting in Python or other equivalent interpreted languages.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with 2 or more areas of security engineering practices such as in web application security, network security, authentication and authorization protocols, cryptography, automation and other software security disciplines; and experience with AWS technologies and services (e.g. S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM, etc.).

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.