Associate Security Operations Engineer Amazon
Herndon, VA

Job Description

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services-gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you're trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com's global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com's multi-billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over a decade.

The AWS IT Security team is responsible for the security and availability of all cloud and mobile products and services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, Amazon Appstore, Cloud Drive and others. Our team works with business stakeholders to solve security challenges at massive scale, and builds tools to automate the auditing and operation of AWS infrastructure. We are looking for software and systems professionals to join us and help us continue to raise the security bar for cloud computing.

This position supports AWS security engineers and technical program managers with security operations and incident response activities. You will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating security response activities for all AWS products and services. You will drive security related issues to resolution across numerous service teams, interacting directly with those teams and other AWS Security engineers.

A successful candidate will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of disparate tasks which may include small-project and software development work. This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your duties.

Responsibilities:

* Proactively support knowledge sharing within the team and across the company
* Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon
* Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for extreme context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective
* Partner with teams throughout the Company
* Develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk· Security metrics delivery and improvements
* Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative work