Amazons Customer Logistics Security team is looking for a skilled security engineer to help keep Amazons Fulfillment and Logistics sites secure. In this role you will be part of a passionate team that innovates develops and maintains automation of network traffic inspection and threat simulation activities.
You will have the ability to learn new technology concepts quickly diving deep into subject matter taking ownership and encouraging innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex problems. You will work cross team with security engineering and operations teams to provide creative scalable solutions to complex problems. You will build automation and tooling to solve security problems at scale for our stakeholders.
Customer obsession while providing security support is critical and core to the teams mission. We are experts in security and passionate in our desire to secure Amazons environments and protect our customers trust.
Key job responsibilities
Develop and maintain automated logging monitoring and threat simulation infrastructure.
Leverage scripting and automation skills (including AWS) to improve efficiency of organizational processes and tooling.
Perform security consulting tasks such as threat modeling architecture diagramming and troubleshooting.
Create and maintain security design documentation runbooks and metrics for a variety of engineering projects.
Communicating and collaborating with partner teams service owners and other security teams to build or troubleshoot services and escalating as required.
A day in the life
As a security engineer you will work closely with security teams and stakeholders to perform various daytoday activities related to ensuring the security of Amazons systems. These tasks may include leveraging scripting skills to build automate and optimize network telemetry and threat simulation systems. Daily activities also include monitoring metrics responding to alerts and troubleshooting issues. You will be responsible for maintaining build pipelines and infrastructure stacks while collaborating with stakeholders on detailed security design reviews.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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.
Work/Life Balance
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3 years of programming in Python Ruby Go Swift Java .Net C or similar object oriented language experience
Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP DNS and TCP/IP
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security Engineering or related field and 3 years of related industry experience
Experience with any combination of the following: system administration network security and/or cloud infrastructure.
2 years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography system administration and network security experience
Experience with AWS products and services
Knowledge of ICS/OT (Industrial Control Systems/Operational Technology).
Programming experience network engineering or OS administration (Linux etc).
Experience with SIEM IDS/IPS network traffic inspection or threat simulation.
Experience creating deploying and maintaining host and/or container systems.
SANS CCSP CISSP CCNP JNCIP OSCP AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectAssociate etc.
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