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.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of technical leadership, success in autonomously and/or collaboratively driving complex issues to resolution, and a "security first" mindset. The candidate can also demonstrate in-depth knowledge of network and/or application security, and be able to clearly communicate design best practices to customers to help them scale under load.
They will have regularly demonstrated operational excellence in supporting a large-scale service provider or enterprise environment, including event management. As a technical leader, the candidate will manage complex stakeholder relationships, both technical and leadership. A love for working with new technologies and pushing the envelope on existing technology is essential
This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers, while developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.
About the Role
You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.
And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Key Job 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