Security Operations Engineer, AWS Security Cloud Response

Overview

As a Security Engineer in Amazon Security, you lead and coordinate responses to security incidents at massive scale, balancing technical risk with business impact. You work with cross-functional teams to drive timely remediation, build internal tools, and push proactive security programs. You’ll apply deep knowledge across cryptography, network and software security, and incident response to strengthen defenses. This role offers a chance to shape security operations at the cloud scale and contribute meaningfully to customer trust.

Pay / Benefits

• work-life balance
• flexible working culture
• career growth and training
• diversity and inclusion initiatives
• knowledge sharing and mentorship
• opportunity to work on cloud security at scale

Responsibilities

• Triage and assess security issues, driving timely remediation and escalating as needed
• Coordinate cohesive incident responses across multiple teams
• Develop internal security tools to enable high-speed, scalable operations
• Evaluate trends and coordinate cross-team responses to protect customers and the organization
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at different sensitivity levels
• Promote security best practices and mentor junior staff across the company
• Assist with hiring and participate in on-call rotations
• Engage in security operations, risk management, and incident response across AWS Cloud services

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP)
• Programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar
• Information security professional certification
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation, including penetration testing and exploits
• Experience applying threat modeling or risk identification techniques
• Experience implementing security solutions at the business division level or equivalent
• EU member state nationality requirement for this role

• strong communication across audiences
• ability to handle high-pressure situations
• context switching and multitasking
• security incident response
• security operations
• threat modeling

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