Senior Security Engineer, SecOps Risk

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Security
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Cybersecurity · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Security Engineer, SecOps Risk

AWS Security is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to safeguard their systems and processes against emerging threats. This role demands a domain expert capable of making strategic technical decisions balancing short-term and long-term security with business objectives. The position is within AWS Security Operations, where you'll be at the forefront of addressing complex architectural security challenges in Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you'll collaborate with service teams, business units, and security teams to resolve systemic security issues. The role requires deep technical expertise in Security Engineering, Architecture, and Identity & Access Management. You'll be responsible for evaluating security findings, developing risk mitigations, and implementing security best practices across Amazon's services.

AWS operates at massive scale with high standards, making security discipline crucial. You'll need strong investigative skills to analyze security issues and new threat scenarios. The position offers the opportunity to work with world-class talent in solving complex security challenges that have far-reaching impacts.

The team values diverse experiences and perspectives, fostering an inclusive culture where ongoing DEI events and learning experiences are part of the environment. Amazon Security offers opportunities to build experience across various domains including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, and physical stores.

Career growth is emphasized through knowledge-sharing, training, and resources for professional development. The company promotes work-life harmony with flexible work arrangements, ensuring success at work doesn't come at the expense of personal life. This role represents a unique opportunity to shape security practices at one of the world's leading technology companies while working on cutting-edge challenges in cloud security.

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Responsibilities For Senior Security Engineer, SecOps Risk

  • Drive response to complex architectural security issues in AWS cloud computing services
  • Partner with service teams, business organizations, and other security teams
  • Solve complex and systemic infrastructure security issues
  • Act as a subject matter expert for the organization
  • Calibration of security findings and development of potential risk mitigations
  • Work with internal Amazon and AWS service teams to improve services
  • Implement cross-team solutions
  • Influence service teams to develop systems with security best practices

Requirements For Senior Security Engineer, SecOps Risk

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ years of experience working on security team or 7+ years' equivalent technology experience
  • Experience with security architecture and threat modeling
  • Incident handling/security response experience

Benefits For Senior Security Engineer, SecOps Risk

  • Flexible work hours
  • Career development and training opportunities
  • Work-life harmony

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