Sr Security Intelligence Engineer, Global Enterprise Response

The Threat Intelligence for Global Enterprise Response (TIGER) team part of Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) is responsible for developing actionable intelligence on advanced cyber threats to Amazon employees and company assets. We obtain indicators and other intelligence from a variety of internal and external sources and use that information to develop an understanding of sophisticated actors and their tools techniques and procedures (TTPs). Our intelligence supports incident response teams red teams detections teams and teams working to prevent financial loss to the company. We leverage that understanding to proactively identify and mitigate malicious activity.

The successful candidate will analyze both attributed and unattributed actor TTPs to generate intelligence and insights into current threats. A deep understanding of current cyber threat actors as well as experience performing question-driven analysis is required. As a Senior Security Intelligence Engineer you will help enhance our capabilities by identifying new data sources formulating new analytic techniques and working across teams to drive their supporting capabilities. You will likewise work to harness expansive data sets and generate actionable and unique insights from them using database querying and statistical analysis. Your efforts will uncover previously-unknown threats and help drive innovation and continual improvement in the state-of-the-art of cyber threat intelligence analysis and dissemination at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
- Perform deep dive analysis of malicious artifacts.
- Analyze large and unstructured data sets to discover new threats uncover trends and identify anomalies indicative of malicious activities.
- Create security techniques and automation for internal use that enable you and others to operate at high speed and broad scale.
- Contribute to Amazons understanding of the current threat landscape and the techniques tactics and procedures associated with specific threats.
- Draft and publish finished written threat intelligence products based on findings.
- Periodic on-call responsibilities.

About the team
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 knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life 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.

On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities typically for one week every two months. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.


- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities
- Experience querying relational databases using SQL (or other query languages)
- 5 years of experience tracking sophisticated cyber threat groups
- 5 years of experience across system security network security application security and/or digital forensics

- Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Strong understanding of Windows Linux and or OS X internals
- Experience with malware analysis network flow analysis and large scale data analysis.
- Experience with modern threat intelligence platforms (TIPs) especially the Vertex Projects Synapse and their APIs
- Experience building and conducting analysis leveraging AWS services. Experience building automated tools in the Python programming language.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Austin - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually