Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Security is hiring for an experienced, self-motivated Sr. Security Engineer with a background in vulnerability and risk management to join our Security, Risk and Compliance (SRC) team.
Our mission includes instilling awareness to safeguard all customer and employee data, applications, services, and assets. To accomplish this, we work with Amazon organizations to build security best practices into enterprise-wide systems. Our guidance and leadership equip our partners to maintain high security standards. Our programs stretch across all of Amazon Stores, Devices, and Others (SDO), giving you the opportunity to interact with product teams, industry specialists, security partners, and organization leaders.
In this role, you will help identify, analyze, and prioritize security risk identified through a variety of sources across Amazon. You will be part of a team of solving complex security challenges that have direct and measurable impact on our customers. Through this work, you will help drive leadership prioritization and reduce security and compliance risk.
Key job responsibilities
- Validate technical approach to security checks to ensure alignment with compliance program.
- Work with security teams across SDO to understand system architecture, technical needs, and compliance requirements and make recommendations on control design.
- Lead the identification and assessment of risk areas for commonality, themes, etc.
- Continuously prioritize risk for service teams, security teams, and executive leadership.
- Collaborate with business/service teams to understand and confirm security assessment scope and controls design.
- Review security controls - Logical Access, Change Management, Network Security, Cryptography, Data Privacy, Vulnerability Management etc.
- Responsible for building and influencing security as a core competency with internal teams/partners/vendor
- Provide technical guidance and recommendations on security requirements to development and operations teams, serving as a subject matter expert for security requirements.
- Create and manage remediation campaigns for identified compliance gaps, developing systematic solutions to address security issues.
- Design automation requirements for continuous compliance monitoring, developing scripts and tools to streamline compliance-related security check.
A day in the life
You will help align security and compliance across Amazon to ensure our technical approach to compliance is as efficient as possible, while increasing the security bar. You will identify risk areas through a variety of security assessments, evaluations, etc and ensure these risks are mitigated.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
- 4+ years of experience in network, system, or software architecture; design, implementation, support, and evaluation of security-focused tools and services
- 2+ years of scripting or programming experience in Ruby, Python, Shell/BASH scripting, Java, C/C++, C*, Perl, or other languages
- 2+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: cryptography, web and network protocols, data structures and algorithms, software development, threat modeling, pen tests, or vulnerability assessments
Job Tags
Full time, Flexible hours,