Security Engineer II, Stores Security HealthCare

Amazon Healthcare Securitys (HealthSec) Detections & Monitoring team is hiring a Security Engineer II to design build and operate detection and monitoring capabilities that protect Amazon Health Services (AHS) across cloud infrastructure applications endpoints and AI-powered systems. You will work at the intersection of detection engineering and security operationsbuilding detection-as-code pipelines developing automated investigation and response workflows and extending monitoring coverage to emerging AI and agentic application architectures.

Working closely with AHS engineering teams peer security teams and incident responders you will ensure that threats targeting healthcare workloads are detected rapidly and investigated efficiently while maintaining HIPAA compliance and Amazons security bar. You will also leverage AI/LLM-powered tooling to scale detection triage and response beyond traditional approaches.

Key job responsibilities
Design build and maintain detection-as-code capabilities across cloud infrastructure (CloudTrail GuardDuty VPC Flow Logs) SaaS applications endpoints and identity systems improving coverage and signal quality

Develop and deploy detections and monitoring for agentic applications and AI services including anomaly detection for LLM-powered tools agent orchestration systems and AI service APIs

Build automated investigation and response workflows that replace manual runbooks leveraging AI to scale triage enrichment containment and remediation

Develop and deploy AI/LLM-powered tooling to investigations reduce alert fatigue and extend team capacity beyond traditional headcount constraints

Monitor telemetry data alerting systems and dashboards for signals of degradation compromise or abuse across AHS environments

Triage and correlate alerts to identify patterns reduce noise and surface high-fidelity signals before impact escalates

Lead and participate in incident response: detection investigation containment and retrospectives identifying root causes and driving long-term resilience improvements

Partner cross-functionally with AHS engineering and platform teams to expand logging improve observability and embed detection capabilities into the development lifecycle

Identify gaps in visibility or detection coverage and translate ambiguous threat landscapes into detection and response solutions

Develop and maintain security documentation: detection coverage maps threat models runbooks and monitoring architecture guidelines

About the team
The HealthSec Detections & Monitoring team protects Amazons healthcare services by building and operating detection and monitoring capabilities at scale. We detect threats across cloud infrastructure applications endpoints and AI systemsand we build AI-powered tooling to make our detections smarter and our response faster. Amazon Security offers talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities across cloud devices retail entertainment healthcare operations and physical stores.

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- 5 years of security-related professional experience
- Bachelors degree in a STEM field (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) or 2 years of IT Security experience
- Experience directly working with cloud hosting technologies (AWS Azure etc.)
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python Go Java or similar languages and experience working in production codebases
- Experience with log aggregation and analysis platforms (e.g. Splunk OpenSearch ELK Datadog) and/or endpoint detection tools (e.g. SentinelOne CrowdStrike)

- Experience in Kubernetes Docker or containers ecosystem
- Experience designing and developing scripts to automate operational burdens and reviewing scripting changes to ensure they meet the standards for maintainability scalability and security
- Experience building detection-as-code frameworks or custom detection pipelines
- Experience building AI/LLM-powered security tooling or applying AI to detection triage or investigation workflows
- Understanding of generative AI technologies large language models and AI agents with ability to identify security risks in agentic architectures
- Experience with threat intelligence threat hunting or attacker tradecraft frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
- Experience with automated response/SOAR platforms or building investigation automation
- Familiarity with HIPAA compliance requirements for healthcare data

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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 WA Seattle - 159300.00 - 202400.00 USD annually