Overview

Job ID: 3088343 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers around the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises, run their operations and applications on AWS’ multi-tenant infrastructure.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure. You’ll work with data scientists, software development engineers, and other security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and preserve our customers’ trust in us. You’ll use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect AWS customers, both internally and externally, from security threats.

You will be working in a team of industry-leading security experts serving UK customers to operate and continuously improve industry-leading security programs and processes. This team manages the underlying security programs and processes for personnel security, physical and logical accreditations, education, awareness and training, assurance, and cyber security, with visibility at senior levels of government agencies, commercial institutions, and AWS including interaction with CISOs, CTOs, their staffs, and AWS senior leadership.

In addition to a strong understanding of security technologies, tool development, offensive and defensive security tactics, and ideally some experience with distributed systems, you’ll need a number of other qualities to be successful in this role. The team has a mix of experience levels, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers, data scientists, and managers truly enjoy mentoring junior engineers, data scientists, and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Help to build and manage services that detect and automate mitigation of cybersecurity threats across AWS infrastructure.
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions.
• Contribute to security programs and processes for personnel security, accreditations, education, awareness, assurance, and cyber security.
• Engage with senior-level stakeholders including CISOs, CTOs, and AWS leadership to communicate risk and security posture.

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive experience performing security investigations, penetration testing, and/or incident response in large organizations.
• In-depth understanding of security threats, hands-on experience detecting and defending from cyber attacks, and experience using big data analytics and orchestration to address security challenges. Ability to develop code in at least one modern language such as Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust; plus security code review.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g., tech lead, security architecture for a product or system, leading a security project) and experience coaching junior security engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS in a STEM-related field. Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow).
• Awareness of current cybersecurity threats, actors and techniques. Experience with data science, big data analytics stacks, analytic development for endpoint and network security, and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Kinesis).
• Strong sense of ownership with a collaborative approach to overcoming challenges and influencing organizational change.

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