Security Engineer, Operational Research, AWS

Come join us and help build and scale security, while responding to security issues across the largest global cloud provider. Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services. We continually look for way to invent and simplify to scale AWS security as it expands, while driving complex issues to resolution.

You will work closely on supporting internal customers, ensuring that their needs and issues are being addressed.

Development/Research

As a team member, you are part of an oncall rotation to provide critical, tier3+ support, for Security Operations team. You also perform research to enhance the stance of Security, and the efficiency of Operations, through metrics and various data analysis.

Incident Response

You will be integral to developing and improving incident and change management within the security space. Responsibilities include driving initiatives regarding improvements to existing tools & processes and providing feedback on new practices & procedures in order to scale with the rapid expansion of the Amazon platform and customer base.

Operations Measurement

As an Operational Research Security Engineer you will be expected to drive quality into the metrics we report to assist us in focusing on the areas that give us the best ROI. This includes measurement of our project plans, issues, and cycle times.

• You are an experienced engineer. You engage autonomously with product and system owners to help create, build and innovate security operations.
• You contribute to the strategic vision for your team, partnering effectively with customers and stakeholders. You establish a roadmap and successfully deliver engineering solutions that execute that vision.
• You are able to independently make short-term vs. long-term decisions. You define clear goals and objectives. You make crisp decisions about what projects move forward and in what priority order.
• You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your manager, customers, and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks. You know when to escalate.
• You communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences. You are able to write narratives and strategic documentation.
• You work successfully with customers, leaders, and other engineering teams.
• You define metrics to measure customer experience, solution quality, and operational excellence.
• Your team has customer engagement mechanisms, adheres to SLAs, and effectively manages operations.

• You review new and ongoing security mitigations to implement, analysing the proposed path forward and course correcting rapidly.
• You align the short term requirements with our long term investments, consistently measuring innovation impact, and proposing out-of-the box solutions.
• You identify gaps by constantly challenging the norms. Every little innovation could result in days of operational improvement for customers.

About the team

Our team is the escalation point for emergent security issues that require innovative solutions and automations at scale. Our team is made up of security engineers from various diverse backgrounds, including red/blue team, IR, IM, etc.

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.

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.

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 & 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.

Work/Life Balance

• 3 + years experience building scalable incident response utilities and tools for internal use that enable your fellow Security Engineers to operate at high speed and wide scale
• 3 years’ experience with focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security
• 3 + years experience with web protocols and Linux/Unix tools and architecture
• 2+ years experience building automated tools in any of these languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, and/or Ruby- A MS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or 5+ years’ equivalent technology experience.
• 3+ year of experience on a Security Operations team
• 3+ years building security automation solutions
• 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
• 3+ years with virtualization technologies, familiarity with AWS services is highly valued in particular
• 2+ years building in AWS Cloud Environment and architecture.

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