At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we provide world-class, flexible, scalable, and secure cloud services to the world’s fastest-growing startups, the largest enterprises, and leading government agencies. We do this by building, maintaining, and securing the largest, most complex infrastructure in the world.
Within AWS, the Infrastructure Security Threat Operations (Threat Ops) team is responsible for monitoring network assets for threats, developing services to alarm upon automated threat discovery, and responding to - and the mitigation of - observed security issues/events. This team is split into two distinct, but complimentary functions: Threat Detection & Threat Response.
The Threat Detection team is looking for an experienced security engineer with expertise in networking and detection engineering to join us as a Security Engineer II. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the maturation of the Threat Detection program across AWS infrastructure. You will work to research, identify, and assess information security threats, and then translate findings into building alerting.
You will partner directly with the Threat Response team to build workflows/automation to increase the fidelity of alerting, as well as decreasing the level of effort for responders to triage and mitigate security issues/events.
As a level of technical escalation, you will apply your security and business knowledge to drive secure and pragmatic improvements broadly to AWS Infrastructure Services, all while making technical trade-offs between short- and long-term security and business goals.
AWS leads and innovates. We don’t just buy off-the-shelf software or follow others. We research and pursue the best approach for the business, whether that’s building new solutions or leveraging existing ones. Amazon Web Services, and Infrastructure Security in particular, operate at massive scale and as a result, demand the highest standards, passion, and discipline for information security and software engineering. A high level of ownership and accountability is a must for this role.
