Senior Security Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon - a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. We want security engineers, who will help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that's part of our DNA. We do this daily by solving complex technical and business problems with ingenuity and simplicity. We're making history, and the good news is that we've only just begun. Every day is Day One at Amazon!

We are seeking exceptional Security Engineers who want to help secure Amazon and its subsidiaries. If you're passionate about Information Security, have exceptional technical depth in Application and Cloud Security assessments and want to join a large scale, fast-paced organization with global impact on millions of customers, then we'd like to talk to you.

We're the team that conducts Amazon subsidiary security assessments during acquisition and then help to raise the security bar after the business is acquired. Our team consists of experts in Application Security, Cloud technologies, Identity and Access Management, and Network Infrastructure Security. We are passionate in our desire to secure Amazon's environments and protect our customers' trust; unflinching in our resolve to hold the security bar high.

Role and Responsibilities

* Serve as Security Solutions Architects to Amazon Subsidiaries
* Demonstrate and promote Security best practices
* Detailed understanding of Application and Cloud Security fundamentals, including Identity and Access Management
* Strong desire to up-skill and self-develop
* Application security assessments
* Scoping Software Penetration testing and working with customers to develop mitigating controls
* Threat modeling
* Security tool evaluation, development and deployment to mitigate risk

This position requires to travel up to 25%