Security Engineer, AWS Cloud Response

Amazon Web Services (AWS)MelbourneHybridFull-time3 weeks ago

AWS is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Cloud Response team in Australia. The role involves managing security and availability of AWS Cloud services, incident response, automation, and AI-driven security solutions. Requires 3+ years of programming experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

What you'll do

Triage new incoming issues to determine the level of risk they present to AWS, 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 the AWS Chief Information Security Officer).
Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the company and build good working relationships with partner security teams and service teams across Amazon
Demonstrate high capacity for managing priorities appropriately while remaining productive and effective, with tolerance for context switching and interruptions
Escalate issues early and often, expressing a high degree of security judgement when issues are not progressing at the correct pace based on impact to ensure we are putting customers first.
Design and build automation that reduces manual toil in incident response, from triage to remediation tracking.
Design agentic systems and frameworks that let AI reason over security context and take action safely within incident response.
Explore and embrace the Amazon builder culture, identifying mechanisms and methods to improve tools and processes to simplify and drive issues at the scale and speed necessary to benefit our global team of engineers.
Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities during the team's working hours and in support of the global team's on-call weekend rotation

What you need

Must-have

PythonRubyGoSwiftJava.NetC++Object-Oriented Programming

Nice-to-have

Threat ModelingSecure CodingIdentity ManagementAuthenticationSoftware DevelopmentCryptographySystem AdministrationNetwork Security

Soft skills

TroubleshootingCommunicationPrioritizationContext SwitchingSecurity JudgementRelationship Building

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