AWS Managed Services (AMS) Security is looking for technical Security Engineers that are passionate about learning new concepts and work well within a team environment to keep customers secure. We value engineers that can work through ambiguity to identify suspicious activity, lead security response, and can explain technical security concepts to non-technical audiences.
Key job responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate and communicate security threats, risks and vulnerabilities, and propose recommended remediation for security issues.
- Contribute to the development of security automation and security posture improvements.
- Track and report on the effectiveness of AWS detective controls such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Macie, and other new security products.
- Develop processes and policies to increase security response effectiveness.
- On-call support: This role requires periodic on-call responsibilities including weekends.
A day in the life
As a Security Engineer in AWS Managed Services (AMS), your responsibilities include monitoring networks and systems for potential threats, performing triage for security alerts, documenting suspicious activity, and reporting issues so they can be adequately handled. You will work alongside our security engineers and partner teams to perform daily threat detection and incident response, using the full capability of AWS technologies and services to detect and mitigate cyber threats at a massive scale and help protect AWS Customers. You should also enjoy learning about the most up-to-date new technologies and procedures to protect information systems and data.
About the team
AMS provides 24/7 threat monitoring, investigation, and response across for customer’s AWS environments. AMS enhances existing security capabilities by supporting security monitoring for all native AWS services and supports vendor agnostic detective and protective controls to provide holistic security controls for customers. This is done by leveraging data on common attack techniques to enhance detective controls and incident response, then building auto-remediation capabilities to minimize disruption to customer workloads. When a security event does happen, you will be there provide guidance.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- 3+ years performing security investigations, detection engineering, and/or security incident response.
- Knowledge of the adversary techniques, tactics, and common methods to identify and disrupt the attack lifecycle.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Information security professional certification, or Bachelor's degree
- Excellent verbal and written skills, communicating complex technical security concepts to a non-technical audience.
