Innovative Security Solutions
As a Security Engineer, you will help build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon's infrastructure, including advanced persistent threats. You will work with data scientists, software development engineers, and other security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at a massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and help preserve our customers' trust in us.
You will get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats.
Key Job Responsibilities
1. Research, Identify, and Prioritize Security Problems: Research, identify, and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation.
2. Develop Detection Prototypes: Develop detection prototypes for these security problems to enhance detection capabilities.
3. Prevent Security Issues at Scale: Identify opportunities to prevent security issues at scale.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
1. Experience in Large Organizations: 3+ years of experience performing security investigations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and/or incident response in the context of large organizations.
2. Understanding of Threat Actor TTPs: Understanding of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by threat actors or groups.
3. Knowledge of Telemetry Data: Knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow).
4. Network and Web Protocols: An understanding of network and web related protocols (such as TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols).
5. Coding Skills: Ability to develop code with at least one modern language, such as Python.
6. Living in Ireland: Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland. Amazon will also provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
1. Experience Creating Threat Detections: Experience creating threat detections in enterprise environments.
2. Analytic Development: Experience with analytic development for endpoint and/or network security.
3. Cloud Services Experience: Experience using common cloud services (IAM, Lambda, EC2, VPC, S3) for security response and/or automation.
4. Data Science and Machine Learning: Experience with data science, machine learning, big data analytics, and/or streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Kinesis).
Diversity and Inclusion
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.
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