Security Engineer, AWS CIRT

Do you want to work on planetary scale incident response solutions in the cloud? Are you skilled at performing Security Incident Response activities and helping customers build threat detection and incident response capabilities using highly scalable computing architectures? Are you excited to help customers respond to security incidents and automate security operations giving them unprecedented capability and agility? Do you enjoy working on fast‑paced complex projects focused on game‑changing business outcomes for customers globally? As a member of the AWS Customer Incident Response Team in the AWS Security organization, you will have the opportunity to help customers respond to security incidents and pioneer technically superb security solutions to help customer operate securely in the cloud. Building on those experiences you’ll collaborate with AWS service teams on new features, innovate with new technologies, and explore new challenges.

The AWS Customer Incident Response team, a part of AWS Security, leverages the expertise and ingenuity of our builders to establish scalable security solutions for both internal and external customers that drive business outcomes. Our goal of securing the world’s workloads and building a brighter future for humanity requires us to focus on reliable delivery of bar‑raising security outcomes and investment in security mechanisms and automation on behalf of our customers.

Cloud security is our highest priority at AWS. As an AWS customer, you benefit from an environment built to meet the requirements of the most security‑sensitive organizations. As an AWS Security team member, you will help secure that environment for our customers while working on security products for a variety of platforms and technologies, all operating at massive scale.

We are looking for an experienced security engineer with an ability to scale security and make the right trade‑off decisions that enable us to offer secure, innovative solutions to customers.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee incident response operations
• Become a deep technical resource that earns the trust of customer stakeholders before, during, and after a security event.
• Independently contribute to teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to build and deploy threat detection and incident response capabilities.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions to automate security operations and incident response on AWS.
• Independently contribute to internal builder projects to develop new consulting engagement models and capabilities for customers.
• Develop high‑quality content, such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our consultants, partners, and customers build on the work that we deliver.
• Innovate on behalf of customers by translating your thoughts into actionable results.
• Mentor and invest in our consultants, partners, and customers to raise the bar for our customers.
• On‑call required.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object‑oriented language experience
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non‑internship)
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non‑internship)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP
• Knowledge of industry‑based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
• Experience performing incident response activities
• 1+ years of experience building/operating on the AWS platform
• 3+ years of experience in technical IT security or related job role
• 2+ years of threat detection or incident response experience
• Hands‑on technical experience in incident response technology, security, automation, implementation, integration, and/or deployment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
• Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience in scripting, programming, or security code reviewing in a common language, such as Python, Java, or C++
• Hands‑on technical experience in building scripts, tools, or methodologies that enhance customers’ threat detection and incident response capabilities
• Strong scripting skills in modern scripting languages like PowerShell, Python, Node.js, Javascript, Bash, Ruby, or SQL
• Experience communicating complex technical matters clearly and concisely orally and in writing
• Experience managing customers during a security event, including managing customer expectations and delivering results
• Detailed knowledge of incident response workflows and processes

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