Senior Security Engineer AWS Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider providing virtualized infrastructure storage networking messaging and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses from startups to enterprises run their operations and applications on AWS multitenant infrastructure.



Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Security Engineer youll help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazons infrastructure. Youll 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 preserves our customers trust in us. Youll get to 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 industryleading security experts working with UK customers to operate and continuously improve industryleading 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 position will have 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 youll need a number of other qualities to be successful in this role. The team has a mix of experience levels and were 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 nontraditional backgrounds through oneonone mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews.


About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security
At Amazon security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazons products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud devices retail entertainment healthcare operations and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.

Training & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing training and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.

Extensive experience performing security investigations penetration testing and/or incident response in the context of large organisations
Indepth understanding of security threats handson experience detecting and defending from cyber attacks and experience using big data analytics and orchestration to address security challenges. Ability to develop code with at least one modern language such as Java Go TypeScript Python Rust and security code review
Demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g. tech lead developed security architecture for a product or system led technical component of security project etc. Experience leading and coaching junior security engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness


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)
Have awareness and understanding of current cyber security threats actors and their 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 collaborative approach to overcoming challenges and influencing organisational change

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