Amazon Security Engineer AWS Managed Services 

United Kingdom, England, Manchester 

785129633

Key job responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate and communicate security threats, risks and vulnerabilities, and propose recommended remediation for security issues.
- Contribute to the development of security automation and security posture improvements.- Develop processes and policies to increase security response effectiveness.
- On-call support: This role requires periodic on-call responsibilities including weekends.A day in the life
As a Security Engineer in AWS Managed Services (AMS), your responsibilities include monitoring networks and systems for potential threats, performing triage for security alerts, documenting suspicious activity, and reporting issues so they can be adequately handled. You will work alongside our security engineers and partner teams to perform daily threat detection and incident response, using the full capability of AWS technologies and services to detect and mitigate cyber threats at a massive scale and help protect AWS Customers. You should also enjoy learning about the most up-to-date new technologies and procedures to protect information systems and data.

- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- 3+ years performing security investigations, detection engineering, and/or security incident response.
- Knowledge of the adversary techniques, tactics, and common methods to identify and disrupt the attack lifecycle.

- Experience with AWS products and services
- Information security professional certification, or Bachelor's degree
- Excellent verbal and written skills, communicating complex technical security concepts to a non-technical audience.