Overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, offering virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services globally. AWS operates at massive scale with a globally distributed environment. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises, run their operations and applications on AWS' multi-tenant infrastructure.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will help build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon's infrastructure. You will 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 will 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 part of a team of industry-leading security experts working with 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. This role will have visibility at senior levels of government agencies, commercial institutions, and AWS, including interaction with CISOs, CTOs, their staff, 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 will need a number of other qualities. The team has a mix of experience levels, and we are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers, data scientists, and managers mentor junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and constructive 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 other security engineers across multiple teams to develop security solutions.
• Contribute to services that proactively protect AWS customers, internally and externally.
• Engage with UK customers to operate and improve security programs and processes related to personnel security, accreditations, education, awareness and training, assurance, and cyber security.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive experience performing security investigations, penetration testing, and/or incident response in large organisations.
• 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, or Rust and to perform security code reviews.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g., tech lead, security architecture for a product or system, led security project components) 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 cyber security threats, actors and techniques. Experience with data science, big data analytics technology stack, analytic development for endpoint and network security, and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, and Kinesis).
• Strong sense of ownership combined with a collaborative approach to overcoming challenges and influencing organizational change.

Company and Culture

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