Job Description

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The Amazon Security Cloud Security Response team manages the security and availability of Amazon Security Cloud services. We operate on the \'Amazon Security\' side of the to ensure \xe2\x80\x9cSecurity of the Cloud\xe2\x80\x9d and to protect our customers. This role requires engineers to work tactically with both internal and external stakeholders to solve security challenges at massive scale, and to think strategically to develop and implement changes to drive automation, scalability and continuous progress for the organization.

We\'re looking for a experienced and talented software and systems professionals with a passion and focus on security who thrive in high energy environments to help us continue to raise the security bar for cloud computing.

Successful candidates should:
- be able to assess technical vs. business risks and consistently drive internal engineering teams to take the right actions in the appropriate time frames to mitigate risks.
- have a good mix of broad and deep technical knowledge and a demonstrated background in information security.
- be technically proficient in the fields of network and operating system security, cryptography, software security, security operations, incident response, and emergent security intelligence.
- possess a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to manage a mix of disparate tasks which may include small-project and software development work.
- be comfortable challenging and escalating to senior leadership to always ensure the best outcome for customers.

An ideal candidate should be able to conduct most of the following:
- Triage/assess security issues and engage with internal service teams to ensure prompt remediation of issues, escalating internally as necessary to ensure the right level of urgency and engagement.
- Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon.
- Demonstrate high ability and tolerance for extreme context switching and interruptions while staying productive and effective.
- Develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while keeping an acceptable level of risk.
- Help with recruiting activities and administrative work.
- Mentoring of junior staff and proactive knowledge sharing within the team and across the company.
- Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities.

#SecOps

Key job responsibilities
- Supply oversight of in-flight security issues.
- Triage new incoming issues to determine the level of risk they present to Amazon Security, and then accordingly prioritize its remediation in conjunction with the impacted service team.
- Communicate the state of these issues to various audiences, both technical and non-technical, at various levels of seniority (up to and including Amazon Security\' Chief Information Security Officer).
- Escalate issues to senior Amazon Security leadership if you feel your issues are not being treated at the correct pace due to their impact to ensure that we are putting customers first.
- Explore building and improving our tooling to make your own life easier, and at the same time, sharing that benefit with all our engineers globally.

A day in the life
In the morning you will take handover from the previous site and be delegated ownership of various security issues presently in-flight. The issues could relate to any of our 200+ products, so you will often need to learn on the go.

You will engage various stakeholders, such as the internal service team who actually needs to fix the issue, along with Amazon Security Leadership, Legal, and the leadership from the impacted service team.

As the day progresses, new issues will be automatically assigned to you based on your workload and you will be responsible for triaging them, determining their level of impact, and work towards resolving them at the appropriate pace.

At the end of the day, you will document all the issues you are tracking so they can be taken over by the site relieving you.

About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon\'s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren\'t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we\'re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we\'re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentor ship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or 3+ years\' equivalent technology experience.
- 3+ years or more of proven experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years or more of proven experience with a focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security.
- 3+ years experience with internet security issues, cloud architectures, and threat landscape.
- 2+ years of scripting/coding experience in any language (including Bash/PowerShell scripting). Previous experience in Python scripting would be ideal.
- Understanding and experience with implementation of best practices across multiple security disciplines/domains.
- Strong, proven knowledge of virtualization technologies (AWS preferred), web protocols, common attacks, and Linux/Unix tools and architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate/develop partnerships with partner teams, work autonomously with a Bias for Action, and employ critical and creative thinking.
- Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects in a dynamic environment.
- Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both business and technical sides of the business.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon\'s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon\'s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role Amazon

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. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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