Job Description
AWS Shield is looking to hire highly motivated, best-in-class Security Engineers for our Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Response Team to drive the security and stability of AWS, while innovating the automation of our operations.
Responsibilities:
* Work with Amazon customers and service teams to diagnose and respond to ongoing events
* Partner with Amazon organizations to proactively assess their DDoS resilience and drive improvements
* Identify and drive automation of repeatable tasks through the creation and/or evolution of scripts and tools
* Drive improvements in our automated detection and mitigation systems from operational learnings
* Develop quality metrics that surface recurring issues or inefficiencies, then drive them to resolution
* Develop documentation and processes for recurring issues, operating procedures, or knowledge transfer
* Advise leadership about new trends and/or ways to improve our DDoS resiliency
* Effectively contribute towards hiring and developing others in the team
* Participate in the team's on-call rotation
Requirements:
* 4+ years of experience in application and network security engineering
* 1+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
* 4+ years of experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support network and application security systems
* 4+ years of experience in a technical on-call capacity, responding to customer impacting events, mitigating and root cause analysis of those events
* Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking, IP routing, Server Load Balancing, Network Security architecture, and core technologies such as IP, TCP, BGP, Firewalls, ACLs, and DNS and knowledge of network hardware and packet forwarding architectures
* Experience working in virtualized enterprise networking environments
* Ability to work in and keep up with a fast-moving environment via effective prioritization and time management
* A relevant degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience in a large-scale environment
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