Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 1-3 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: unacceptable
Basic qualifications
BS in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent professional experience.
5 years of demonstrated experience in areas such as incident response, systems security, network, and/or application security.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt messaging to executive, technical, and non-technical audiences.
Understanding of best practices in security engineering, including secure development, cryptography, network security, security operations, systems security, policy, and incident response.
Technical depth in one or more specialties including: application security, infrastructure security, digital forensics, malware analysis, or some combination thereof.
Understanding of security vulnerabilities, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for their remediation.
The capacity and tolerance for context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and providing effective, safe guidance.
Experience with common security monitoring, log analysis and forensic tools.
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy.
scripting skills (E.g: Python, Perl, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
Preferred qualifications
Experience triaging and developing security alerts and response automation, conducting front-line analysis, and providing escalation support.
7 years of information security experience.
Relevant industry certifications from SANS, ISC2, etc.
Strong demonstrated knowledge of Unix tools and architecture.
Experience working as part of a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) or Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT).
Familiarity/experience with AWS services and security concepts.
Amazon offers great benefits including a competitive compensation and stock plan. We also look after our people with benefits including: subsidized private health and life insurance, commuter benefits and even an Amazon discount. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
We value broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of forensics, malware analysis, network security, application security, cryptography, and security intelligence.
Responsibilities:
- Responding to security incidents, and coordinating a cohesive response involving multiple teams across Amazon.
- Providing security engineering solutions and support during customer-facing incidents, proactively considering the prevention of similar incidents from occurring in the future.
- Assisting in the development of pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.
- Identifying and recommending solutions that improve or expand Amazon’s incident response capabilities.
- Working alongside and mentoring Information Security engineers to improve security, reduce and quickly address risk.
-Evaluating the impact of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research to Amazon, coordinating response as necessary across affected teams.
-Keeping your knowledge and skills current with the rapidly changing threat landscape.
-Participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
