AWS is looking for a passionate Security Engineer, Incident Response who can lead the response to security issues across the largest cloud provider in the world. You must thrive in high-pressure situations, and think like both an attacker and defender, while working through the entire incident response lifecycle. 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, threat hunting, detection engineering, and emergent security intelligence. 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!
About the team
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. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent related field. Or equivalent industry certification.
- 3 years of demonstrated experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security.
- 3 years experience on a Security team, especially experience coordinating responses to security incidents. Proficiency with one high-level programming or scripting language.- 3 years experience working in security operations or incident response, security automation tooling, or threat intelligence.
- Familiarity with threat hunting, detection engineering, malware analysis, forensics, SOAR, SIEM platforms, and a variety of Operating Systems (MS Windows, Linux, MacOS).
- Experience with Amazon Web Services.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
Acknowledgement of country:
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