Security Engineer III

Employer: Services LLC

Position: Security Engineer III (multiple positions available)

Location: Seattle, WA

Multiple Positions Available:

1. Analyze network and host activity on incident response situations, leveraging best practices tools and creation of custom tool sets and scripts. Coordinate critical and sensitive incident response engagements spanning multiple geographies.

2. Conduct briefings on the outcome of threat hunting and incident response operations to a broad spectrum of audiences, ranging from technical teams to executive management. Conduct Threat Hunting operations, and assess the risk on findings, using known adversary TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures). Coordinate critical and sensitive cyber threat hunting engagements spanning multiple geographies.

3. Work with partner organizations within Amazon to help integrate security at all levels of their projects.

4. Conduct Incident response and Forensics analysis on AWS resources, including but not limited to EC2 instances, given a "known-good" baseline. Be involved in hands-on security assessments, where one will develop and provide guidance, and advocate security engineering best practices.

5. Analyze the security of applications and services following Amazon's security processes and policies, and provide guidance on technologies, discovering and addressing security issues and quickly reacting new threat scenarios.

6. Participate in and perform security audits, risk analysis, vulnerability testing and security reviews across all elements of projects and software systems.

7. Detect anomalies in large unstructured data sets, synthesize data and reports from different sources, make logical inferences about such data and publish results.

8. Design and develop tools and scripts to aid in data processing or other aspects of a security investigation.

9. Provide security architecture and solve security challenges at scale and work to help create solutions while developing strong security culture and practices.

10. Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies.

11. Working alongside and mentoring Information Security engineers to improve security, reduce and quickly address risk.
    
    (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $179, $226,700.00/year.

is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

A master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Telecommunication System Management, or equivalent, or related discipline and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

In the alternative, a bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Telecommunication System Management, or equivalent, or related discipline followed by five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Three (3) years of related work experience involving each of the following:

• Experience in security engineering and network technologies (PCAP, Netflow), Operating Systems and network security, common attack patterns and exploitation techniques.
• Experience with Security Operations, Incident Response, Threat Hunting and Assurance methodologies.
• Experience with common attack patterns and exploitation techniques.
• Practical knowledge of system security analysis techniques such as threat modeling, attack graphs.
• Expertise in writing run-books, and complexity analysis, execute vulnerability scans and reviews vulnerability assessment reports.

The pay range for this position in Seattle, WA is $179, $226,700.00/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided by Seattle, WA Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

All applicants must meet all the above listed requirements.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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