Associate Security Engineer, Global Services Security

The Associate Security Engineer role focuses on incident response and threat detection for customers, helping build scalable security operations in the cloud. You will work with the Threat Detection and Incident Response Practice in the AWS Global Service Security organization to help customers respond to security incidents and develop technically strong security solutions, collaborating with AWS service teams on new features and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee security 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 thoughts into actionable results
• Mentor and invest in our consultants, partners, and customers to raise the bar for our customers
• Periodic on-call required

Basic Qualifications

• Experience performing incident response activities
• 1+ year of experience building/operating on the AWS platform
• 3+ years of experience in technical IT security or related job role
• 2+ years of threat detection or incident response experience
• Hands-on technical experience in incident response technology, security, automation, implementation, integration, and/or deployment
• This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on technical experience in building scripts, tools, or methodologies that enhance customers’ threat detection and incident response capabilities
• Strong scripting skills in modern scripting languages like PowerShell, Python, Node.js, Javascript, Bash, Ruby, or SQL
• Experience communicating complex technical matters clearly and concisely orally and in writing
• Experience managing customers during a security event, including managing customer expectations and delivering results
• Knowledge of incident response workflows and processes

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Posted: September 2, 2025 (Updated 20 days ago)