Associate Security Engineer

Who you are

• We are looking for an experienced security engineer with an ability to scale security and make the right trade-off decisions that enable us to offer secure, innovative solutions to customers
• Experience in scripting, programming, or security code reviewing in a common language, such as Python, Java, or C++
• Experience in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship experience)
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
• Experience in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques (non-internship)
• Experience in security operations, risk management, and incident response
• Fluency building with AI tools
• Citizen of an European Union Country
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience with threat modeling and penetration testing, or experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service and experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP)
• Experience communicating technical details verbally and in writing
• Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply

What the job involves

• 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
• The AWS Customer Incident Response team, a part of AWS Security, leverages the expertise and ingenuity of our builders to establish scalable security solutions for both internal and external customers that drive business outcomes
• Our goal of securing the world’s workloads and building a brighter future for humanity requires us to focus on reliable delivery of bar raising security outcomes and investment in security mechanisms and automation on behalf of our customers
• Cloud security is our highest priority at AWS. As an AWS customer, you benefit from an environment built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations
• As an AWS Security team member, you will help secure that environment for our customers while working on security products for a variety of platforms and technologies, all operating at massive scale
• 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