Security Engineer, AWS SOC Incident Response

ENGINEERINGUK
London, England
12 months ago
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Security Engineer, AWS SOC Incident Response

Sector: Technology
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

DESCRIPTION
The Amazon Web Services Security Operations Center AWS-SOC Team manages security issues across the globe. The team is looking for a highly motivated, technically inclined individual to work as a Security Engineer. A successful candidate will need to embody our 16 leadership principles; especially in Learn and Be Curious, Earns Trust, and Dives Deep. You will work from the LHR14, London SOC location. You need to be comfortable working in a dynamic technical, and at times, ambiguous environment.

Key job responsibilities

  1. Detect, monitor and analyze security alerts from various sources to detect and respond to potential threats in real-time.
  2. Develop, implement, and fine-tune detection rules and correlation logic to improve threat detection capabilities.
  3. Conduct in-depth investigations of security incidents, perform forensic analysis, and coordinate incident response activities.
  4. Maintain and optimize security information and event management systems and other security tools used in the SOC.
  5. Collaborate with other teams to enhance threat intelligence, improve incident response procedures, and provide regular reports on security posture.


A day in the life
As a Security Engineer in Detections, your day revolves around safeguarding our digital assets. This position supports other AWS Security Engineers with security engineering, security operations and incident response activities. You will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating security response activities, fine-tuning detection rules. You'll investigate potential incidents, collaborate with threat intelligence teams, and develop new detection algorithms.

About the team
AWS-SOC Team manages security issues across the globe. A security engineer within the team is responsible for maintaining physical and logical security for customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  1. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  2. Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
  3. Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  1. Experience with AWS products and services
  2. Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
  3. Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++


Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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