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Security Engineer I, TALON, Security Incident Response
Amazon
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Remote Eligibility
On-site
Domain
Sec Ops
State
Virginia
City
Arlington
Job Description
Posted on:
November 18, 2024
Primary NIST Speciality
Protect and Defend
NIST Sub-speciality
Incident Response
Seniority
Experienced
Salary ($K)
-
Summary and company overview
Summary Information about the Role:
Amazon is seeking qualified Security Engineers to join our innovative, high energy Information Security team. In this role you will work within the TALON team with Amazon Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). TALON Security Engineers are focused on using security orchestration (SOAR) to reduce workload for SIRT and review of new proposed detections. TALON Security Engineers are unique individuals prepared to relentlessly improve speed and efficiency of our response teams.
With your technical expertise, you will be solving security challenges at scale, working to protect the applications powering the most sophisticated e-commerce platform ever built. We value broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of security orchestration, detection engineering, forensics, malware analysis, network security, application security, threat hunting, and threat intelligence.
Company Overview:
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.
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.
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 and 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.
Responsibilities
- Automating repetitive tasks using our security orchestration tools.
- Review of new proposed detections for onboarding to the security incident response team (SIRT).
- Providing security engineering solutions and support during customer-facing incidents, proactively considering the prevention of similar incidents from occurring in the future.
- Assisting in the development of pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.
- Identifying and recommending solutions that improve or expand Amazon’s incident response capabilities.
- Working alongside and mentoring Information Security engineers to improve security, reduce and quickly address risk.
- Evaluating the impact of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research to Amazon, coordinating response as necessary across affected teams.
- Keeping your knowledge and skills current with the rapidly changing threat landscape.
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science, Information Security, and 1+ years of related professional (non-internship) experience or 3+ years of related professional experience.
- Experience with common security monitoring, log analysis and forensic tools with proficieny in one or more scripting languages (E.g: Python, Perl, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
- Able to perform DFIR and provide incident command at all stages (identification, containment, eradication, recovery, etc) while coordinating with various teams and providing reporting to leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Technical depth in one or more specialties including: application security, infrastructure security, digital forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting or some combination thereof.
- Relevant industry certifications from SANS, ISC2, etc.
- Experience working as part of a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
- Familiarity/experience with AWS services and security concepts.
Additional commentary
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Summary and company overview
Summary Information about the Role:
Amazon is seeking qualified Security Engineers to join our innovative, high energy Information Security team. In this role you will work within the TALON team with Amazon Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). TALON Security Engineers are focused on using security orchestration (SOAR) to reduce workload for SIRT and review of new proposed detections. TALON Security Engineers are unique individuals prepared to relentlessly improve speed and efficiency of our response teams.
With your technical expertise, you will be solving security challenges at scale, working to protect the applications powering the most sophisticated e-commerce platform ever built. We value broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of security orchestration, detection engineering, forensics, malware analysis, network security, application security, threat hunting, and threat intelligence.
Company Overview:
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.
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.
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 and 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.
About
Amazon
Company Size
Very large (20K+)
Employer type
Enterprise
Company Rating (Glassdoor)
3.8
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