Security Engineer, Security Response and Engineering, Amazon

• 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
• You will have a strong working knowledge of cloud technologies, and thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• 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

Desirable

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