Come and build innovative services that protect our cloud from advanced security threats!
As a Senior Security Engineer on our team, you'll help build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon's infrastructure, including advanced persistent threats. You'll 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'll 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 - not many teams can say that!
Key job responsibilities
1. Research, identify, and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation.
2. Develop detection prototypes for these security problems to enhance detection capabilities.
3. Identify opportunities to prevent security issues at scale.
4. Mentor and develop teammates both technically and professionally.
5. Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technology to research, identify, and mitigate complex risks.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
1. 5+ years of experience performing security investigations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and/or incident response in the context of large organizations.
2. Understanding of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by threat actors or groups.
3. Knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow).
4. An understanding of network and web related protocols (such as TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols).
5. Ability to develop code with at least one modern language, such as Python.
6. 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 in enterprise environments.
2. Experience with analytic development for endpoint and/or network security.
3. Experience using common cloud services (IAM, Lambda, EC2, VPC, S3) for security response and/or automation.
4. Experience with data science, machine learning, big data analytics, and/or streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Kinesis).
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