[Hiring] AWS Security Operations/Incident Response Engineer @Amazon

Role Description

The AWS Security Incident Response team is seeking a focused Security Engineer who can take on a leadership role in responding to security issues in support of our National Security program. This engineer will work as a part of a growing team of security engineers who are focused on protecting the AWS infrastructure that is used by our national security customers. Our security engineers perform many duties during an average day:

• Log analysis
• Incident response
• Forensics
• System/tooling development
• Risk assessment

You must thrive in high-pressure situations, think like both an attacker and defender, and drive relevant teams to take the right actions in the right time frames to mitigate risks. They also need to balance technical risks against business needs and be able to articulate risks and mitigations to members of leadership at various levels.

Qualifications

• Good mix of deep technical knowledge and a demonstrated background in information security
• Broad and deep technical knowledge in the fields of cryptography, network security, software security, malware analysis, forensics, security operations, incident response, and emergent security intelligence
• US Citizen with an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph

Requirements

• Confidently and intelligently respond to security incidents and proactively consider how to prevent the same type of incidents from occurring in the future
• Design and coordinate cohesive responses to security events that involve multiple teams across the organization
• Build security utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow Security Engineers to operate at high speed and wide scale
• Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of sensitivity and multiple audiences
• Recognize, adopt and instill the best practices in security engineering fields throughout the organization
• Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
• EAP and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Company Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtual infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises, run their operations and applications on AWS’s multi-tenant infrastructure. Governmental organizations are also looking to and depending on AWS for cloud solutions and services.