Security Engineer Ii, Aws Security Outreach

The Amazon Web Services team is looking for a focused Security Engineer who can take on a role in communicating, collaborating with and responding to security issues from the Security Community across the largest cloud provider in the world. You must thrive in challenging situations, think like both an attacker and defender, and drive relevant teams to take the right actions in the right time frames to mitigate risks.
We are looking for someone who can balance technical risks against business risks and consistently drive for the right results. You must have the passion for engineering novel solutions to complex security challenges, and recognize and fill gaps in capabilities. The ability to communicate effectively with various internal and external stakeholders with competing goals is important to the success for this role. As an engineer that is part of the AWS Security Outreach team you will assess potential security issues reported by third party researchers about services with AWS.
You should have a good mix of deep technical knowledge and a demonstrated background in information security. We value broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of cryptography, network security, software security, malware analysis, forensics, security operations, incident response, serverless computing, and emergent security intelligence.
You should be able to accomplish most of the following:

• Provide subject matter expertise on architecture, authentication and system security.
• Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of sensitivity, and multiple audiences.
• Recognize, adopt and instill the best practices in security engineering fields throughout the organization: development, cryptography, network security, security operations, incident response, serverless computing, and security intelligence.
• Confidently and intelligently respond to security incidents, and proactively consider how to prevent the same type of incidents from occurring in the future.
• Evaluate the impact to the organization of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research. Coordinate responses as necessary across affected teams to do the right thing for our customers and our organization.
• Design and coordinate cohesive responses to security issues that involve multiple teams across the organization.
• Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities.

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• Relevant industry certifications from SANS, ISC2, etc.
• Experience with virtualization and/or serverless technologies, especially with AWS services.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects in a dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously with a bias for action, critical and creative thinking
• Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills.
• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both business and technical sides of the business.
• Understanding of best practices in cybersecurity awareness
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate, develop partnerships and work effectively as a member of a team
• 5+ years’ equivalent information security experience.
• 3+ years experience with internet security issues, cloud architectures, and threat landscape.
• Strong demonstrated knowledge of web protocols, common attacks, and an in-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $135,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.