Amazon’s Customer Logistics Security team is looking for a skilled security engineer to help keep Amazon’s Fulfillment and Logistics sites secure. In this role, you will be part of a passionate team that innovates, develops, and maintains automation of network traffic inspection and threat simulation activities.
You will have the ability to learn new technology concepts quickly, diving deep into subject matter, taking ownership, and encouraging innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex problems. You will work cross team with security, engineering, and operations teams to provide creative scalable solutions to complex problems. You will build automation and tooling to solve security problems at scale for our stakeholders.
Customer obsession while providing security support is critical and core to the team's mission. We are experts in security and passionate in our desire to secure Amazon's environments and protect our customers' trust.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated logging, monitoring, and threat simulation infrastructure.
- Leverage scripting and automation skills (including AWS) to improve efficiency of organizational processes and tooling.
- Perform security consulting tasks, such as threat modeling, architecture diagramming, and troubleshooting.
- Create, and maintain security design documentation, runbooks, and metrics for a variety of engineering projects.
- Communicating and collaborating with partner teams, service owners, and other security teams, to build or troubleshoot services and escalating as required.
A day in the life
As a security engineer, you will work closely with security teams and stakeholders to perform various day-to-day activities related to ensuring the security of Amazon's systems. These tasks may include leveraging scripting skills to build, automate, and optimize network telemetry and threat simulation systems. Daily activities also include monitoring metrics, responding to alerts, and troubleshooting issues. You will be responsible for maintaining build pipelines and infrastructure stacks, while collaborating with stakeholders on detailed security design reviews.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 Amazon Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training and 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering or related field and 3+ years of related industry experience
- Experience with any combination of the following: system administration, network security, and/or cloud infrastructure.- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Knowledge of ICS/OT (Industrial Control Systems/Operational Technology).
- Programming experience, network engineering, or OS administration (Linux, etc).
- Experience with SIEM, IDS/IPS, network traffic inspection, or threat simulation.
- Experience creating, deploying, and maintaining host and/or container systems.
- SANS, CCSP, CISSP, CCNP, JNCIP, OSCP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate, etc.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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