Offensive Security Engineer, AWS

Job summary
**This role is open to alternative locations including: New York, NY – Boston, MA – Seattle, WA - Vancouver, BC Canada - Herndon, VA – Arlington, VA – Baltimore, MD – San Luis Obispo, CA – San Diego, CA

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security team is looking for a Security Engineer who has a strong passion for security-at-scale. You will be on a team responsible for the design & implementation of continuous assessments and technology helping teams maintain insight to the integrity of their development, deployment, monitoring, and response processes.

AWS Security is on the cutting edge of many security issues for a wide variety of platforms and technologies including cloud services, Internet of things (IoT), identity and access management, mobile devices, virtualization and custom hardware, all operating at massive scale.

AWS Security is looking for a Security Engineer to help ensure our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for designing and implementing workflows that integrate with multiple services, automation that removes humans from the loop, and correlation & analysis platforms that function at the scale of AWS. You will work directly with internal teams to solve challenging software problems and influence how other teams interface with your architectures.

You must produce results in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge, and foster constructive dialogue and drive resolution when faced with disagreement. You are considered a technical leader on your team. You work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas in existing or new hardware and software initiatives. You take a long term view of your team’s processes & software, understanding how it fits into the business. You proactively fix architectural deficiencies and/or propose larger project scopes, which may require the work of a team. You split that work into parallel tasks that can be performed by you and others and then reassembled successfully.

A successful candidate will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of complex decisions.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and execution of security review and test methodologies for the recurring and holistic testing of a critical group of AWS production services. Ensure remediation of risks by partnering with service teams.
• Perform design review, threat modeling, security review, penetration testing, and red teaming on production systems for AWS services.
• Scope and perform penetration testing & vulnerability research of complex proprietary software and hardware for AWS services.
• Work closely with the AWS Security teams to develop large scale, cutting edge, testing, monitoring, remediation, and analytics solutions.
• Work closely with other internal development teams across AWS Security to create comprehensive security tooling and functional improvements at scale.
• Demonstrate judgment, integrity, business acumen, and communication skills.
• Prepare and present detailed, written technical information for internal and external audiences.

Here at AWS, 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 host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

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 mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Please contact Robert Cahill (cahirobe@amazon.com) for more information.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience in software security.
• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or similar field or equivalent work experience.
• 1+ years of proficiency in at least 1 scripting programming language, familiarity with Java, and familiarity with python

Preferred Qualifications

• Passionate about internet security issues and the threat landscape for popular software & services with the ability and desire to root-cause, mitigate, and explore deeper.
• Domain expertise in at least 2 of: security architecture and engineering, communication and network security, identity and access management (IAM), security assessment and testing, cryptography, and software development security.
• A data-driven and quantitative mentality--you excel in supporting ideas with available evidence.
• Experience with the design and implementation of technical security controls at the business division level.
• Experience performing or supporting Red Team engagements with an understanding of a holistic assessment
• Experience with AWS or similar enterprise cloud computing platforms.
• Experience with full-stack (Linux / Unix) software architectures from UI to infrastructure.
• Experience with serverless architectures, and common virtualization techniques (hypervisors/containers/jails) and escapes/exploits from these environments.
• Experience with micro-service, API-based agent, or service oriented software architectures.
• Operations experience with CI/CD development or managing distributed systems
• Web service assessment experience with authentication controls, session management, access controls, logic flaws, injection vulnerabilities, request smuggling, cloud privilege escalation, DOS attacks
• Experience using boto3
• Participation in Bug Bounty programs
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Please contact Robert Cahill (cahirobe@amazon.com) for more information.



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