Security Engineer, Security Response and Engineering (SRE)

Amazon is looking for a Security Engineer, with exposure to both building and operating production grade tools or services, to help automate and scale security, while responding to security issues across the largest cloud provider in the world.

You will be joining a team that is continually looking for ways to invent and simplify, at scale, how we support incident response, how we improve the security posture of AWS Services, all the while helping drive complex security issues to resolution.

Key job responsibilities

As a Security Engineer, you will be a trusted technical lead, capable of navigating ambiguity, and simplifying complex problems. You work part of a team, and make appropriate trade-offs between business and technical constraints. You identify opportunities to converge overlapping technical efforts, and drive the long term strategy with support of other engineering leaders, and partner orgs. You will be expected to carry on-call duties, whether by directly supporting our internal incident security operations response team, or maintaining response capabilities for our customers; you build it, you run it. You will also be expected to drive operational excellence and efficiency in everything you do, whether by researching new, or scaling up existing capabilities, creating sane procedures, automating day-to-day tasks, and ensuring that the needs and issues of our internal customers are being addressed.

Cloud security is our highest priority. As an Amazon customer, you benefit from an environment built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. As a Security team member, you will help secure that environment.

The ideal candidate is a creative, will have a well-rounded technical background, as well as a history of building and operating large or complex systems end-to-end. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills. This candidate should possess verifiable leadership qualities including being proactive, thoughtful, thorough, decisive, and flexible, conducting themselves professionally and with integrity at all times. The candidate is not just a spokesperson for projects, but drives to get the right things done. At the core of the position is delivery. You will have a strong working knowledge of cloud technologies, and thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

A day in the life

1. You align the short term requirements with our long term investments, consistently measuring innovation impact, and proposing out-of-the box solutions.
2. You identify gaps by constantly challenging the norms. Every little innovation could result in days of operational improvement for your engineers and customers.
3. You synchronise frequently with other specialised teams to maintain a homogeneous vision.

About the team

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

• BS degree in Computer Science, Security, Distributed Systems, Networking, Computer Engineering, (or) 3+ years' equivalent technology experience.
• 3+ years experience with focus in areas such as systems, network, web protocols, and/or application security.
• 2+ years experience building scalable incident response utilities and automated tools in any of these languages: Python, C, C++, Perl, and/or Ruby.

• A MS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or 4+ years' equivalent technology experience.
• A high degree of organisation and be very detail-oriented. Must be able to interact with and influence people at all levels.
• Experience with virtualisation technologies, familiarity with AWS services is highly valued in particular.
• Extensive knowledge of internet security issues and threat landscape.
• Strong knowledge of web protocols and an in-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture.
• Well-rounded background in host, network and application security.
• Previous experience on a Security Operations team, or experience coordinating responses to security incidents.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

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