Security Incident Response Engineer, Amazon

• You must thrive in dynamic/ambiguous situations, and think like both an attacker and defender, while working through the entire incident response lifecycle
• We don’t expect you to be an expert in all of the domains mentioned above, but we do expect you to be excited to learn about them!
• You’ll apply your creative and critical problem solving skills to quickly design and build tooling that enables programmatic automation at a massive scale
• You must have a passion for engineering solutions to complex security challenges, and recognize and fill gaps in capabilities
• Above all, you should be passionate about information security, the threat landscape and security automation and tooling
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language
• 5+ years or more of demonstrated experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security
• 3+ years of experience on a Security Operations team, coordinating responses to security incidents
• Proficiency with one high-level programming or scripting language

Desirable

• The Amazon Web Services team is looking for a passionate Security Incident Response Engineer who can lead the response to security issues across the largest cloud provider in the world
• You’ll be working in a global team environment where clear and accurate communication and collaboration on security issues is critical
• In this role you’ll be conducting security monitoring and response activities for the Amazon internal network
• We value broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of operating system security, network security, cryptography, software security, malware analysis, forensics, security operations, incident response, and emergent security intelligence
• In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious