Amazon

Security Engineer, AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT)

Amazon$159K — $202K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in coding and security code review experience in a common programming language
  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or 2+ years of IT Security experience
  • Experience troubleshooting system issues and analyzing logs
  • Background in working with a CSIRT or PSIRT
  • Fluency in building AI tools

Responsibilities

  • Oversee incident response operations for customers
  • Establish trust with customer stakeholders during security events
  • Collaborate with teams to build and deploy threat detection capabilities
  • Design and automate security operations solutions on AWS
  • Develop content like automation tools and white papers for stakeholders
  • Translate innovative concepts into actionable results
  • Mentor consultants and partners to enhance customer service

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including mental health support
  • 401(k) matching plan
  • Generous paid time off
  • Parental leave provisions
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare costs
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
Do you want to work on planetary scale incident response solutions in the cloud? Are you skilled at performing Security Incident Response activities and helping customers build threat detection and incident response capabilities using highly scalable computing architectures? Are you excited to help customers respond to security incidents and automate security operations giving them unprecedented capability and agility? Do you enjoy working on fast-paced complex projects focused on game changing business outcomes for customers globally? As a member of the AWS Customer Incident Response Team in the AWS Security organization, you will have the opportunity to help customers respond to security incidents and pioneer technically superb security solutions to help customer operate securely in the cloud. Building on those experiences you'll collaborate with AWS service teams on new features, innovate with new technologies, and explore new challenges.

Key job responsibilities
• Perform and oversee incident response operations
• Become a deep technical resource that earns the trust of customer stakeholders before, during, and after a security event.
• Independently contribute to teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to build and deploy threat detection and incident response capabilities.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions to automate security operations and incident response on AWS.
• Independently contribute to internal builder projects to develop new consulting engagement models and capabilities for customers.
• Develop high-quality content, such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our consultants, partners, and customers build on the work that we deliver.
• Innovate on behalf of customers by translating your thoughts into actionable results.
• Mentor and invest in our consultants, partners, and customers to raise the bar for our customers.
• On-call required.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience

- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience

- Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship experience)

- Experience working as part of a computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) or Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)

- Fluency building AI tools

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

- Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks

- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP

- Experience with AWS products and services

- Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Austin - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually

About Amazon

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Amazon Careers

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Net Income
$21.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+28.1%
Revenue
$386 billion
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