Senior Penetration Testing Engineer, AWS Proactive Security

Job ID: 2916231 | AWS EMEA SARL (Italy Branch)

We are looking for a Senior Pentest Engineer to help ensure our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. They will be responsible for application and hardware penetration testing, automating repetitive tasks using various scripting languages, and influencing AWS services through the creation of threat mitigation plans. They will work directly with internal teams to solve challenging software problems.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud service provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world, including government customers. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises to large government customers, run their operations and applications on AWS’ highly secure infrastructure. Our team is responsible for the manual assessment of all products, services, and software released by AWS. We specialize in digging deep to find security issues that static analysis tools can’t and write the tooling to help with these goals whenever possible.

You must produce results in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge, and foster constructive dialogue and drive resolution when faced with disagreement. You are considered a technical leader on your team. You work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas in existing or new hardware and software initiatives. You proactively fix architectural deficiencies and/or propose larger project scopes, which may require the work of a team. You split that work into parallel tasks that can be performed by you and others and then reassembled successfully.

Amazon's Leadership Principles of "Dive Deep", "Earn Trust", "Deliver Results", and "Invent and Simplify" will be called upon daily. A successful candidate will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of complex decisions.

Key job responsibilities

1. Perform penetration testing of complex proprietary software and hardware for Amazon services.
2. Manually audit the source code of web services and software authored in-house by Amazon.
3. Write proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issue.
4. Provide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fix.
5. Partner with AWS builders to drive improvement in application security as a result of security review engagements.
6. Provide actionable long-term risk mitigation guidance.

A day in the life

Pre-Launch Security Testing is responsible for the manual assessment of all products, services, and software released by AWS. We specialize in digging deep to find security issues that static analysis tools can’t and write the tooling to help with these goals whenever possible.

About the team

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with the design and implementation of technical security controls at the business division level and experience performing or supporting Red Team engagements with an understanding of a holistic assessment.

- Experience with Amazon Web Services or similar enterprise cloud computing platforms and experience with full-stack (Linux / Unix) software architectures from UI to infrastructure.

- Experience with serverless architectures, and common virtualization techniques (hypervisors/containers/jails) and escapes/exploits from within these environments and experience with micro-service, API-based agent, or service-oriented software architectures.

- Operations experience with CI/CD development or managing distributed systems and web service assessment experience with authentication controls, session management, access controls, logic flaws, injection vulnerabilities, request smuggling, cloud privilege escalation, DoS attacks.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

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