Senior Security Engineer, AWS International Security Team
DESCRIPTION
Job Description:
Come and join a creative, diverse, and collaborative team that is changing how we think about Cloud Security! At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The International Security team is responsible for driving innovative enhancements that raise the bar for how AWS employees delivery security Of the cloud to support customer facing engagements.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll help to build and manage security controls that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure. You’ll be working for government and regulated industries to understand their detailed security needs. You’ll work with data scientists, software development engineers, and other security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and preserves our customers’ trust in us. You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect AWS customers, both internally and externally, from security threats.
You will be working in a team of industry-leading security experts working with knowledgeable customers to operate and continuously improve industry-leading security programs and processes. This team manages the underlying security programs and processes for personnel security, physical and logical accreditations, education, awareness and training, assurance, and cyber security. This position will have visibility at senior levels of government agencies, commercial institutions, and AWS including interaction with CISOs, CTOs, their staffs, and AWS senior leadership.
In addition to a strong understanding of security technologies, tool development, offensive and defensive security tactics, and ideally some experience with distributed systems, you’ll need a number of other qualities to be successful in this role. The team has a mix of experience levels, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, 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 we 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 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
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. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth as a passionate learner that is motivated to take on challenges.
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well balanced life—both in and outside of work.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Qualifications:
Extensive experience performing security investigations, penetration testing, and/or incident response in the context of large organisations.
In-depth understanding of security threats, hands-on experience detecting and defending from cyber-attacks, and experience using big data analytics and orchestration to address security challenges.
Demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g., tech lead, developed security architecture for a product or system, led technical component of security project, etc.).
Experience leading and coaching junior security engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
University Degree in a STEM related field
Understanding of the Mitre ATT&CK framework and knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow)
Have awareness and understanding of current cyber security threats, actors and their techniques Experience with data science, big data analytics technology stack, analytic development for endpoint and network security, and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, and Kinesis)
Strong sense of ownership combined with collaborative approach to overcoming challenges and influencing organisational change
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