Security Engineer, Secure Third Party Tools
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About Amazon Security 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. 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 & 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. 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.
Requirements
- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
- 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques
- Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language (non-internship)
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Additional Information
Secure Third Party Tools (S3T) is looking for a Security Engineer to aid on our issue to identify, measure and remediate security risks of engagement with 3Ps and their products that get access to Amazon's data. S3T conducts assessments to determine if third party usage meets Amazon's security bar and the security measures required to remediate gaps to meet the security Bar. We help with security risk reduction, by identifying required security measures, helping determine acceptable methods of meeting security control objectives including application of compensating controls or other risk-reduction activities. If you enjoy working at scale in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the protection of our customers within a large global organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity. As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with teams across business, science, product, software development, other security engineers and 3Ps to identify security risks and remediate them. You will also collaborate in defining the right security controls in the evolving security landscape to safeguard our customer's data. In You will conduct security deep-dive reviews (e.g. product security review and testing), developing security guardrails and baselines for partner teams to securely use third party products and services, collaborate on securing integrations of third party products with Amazon services, advising on security configurations, building tools to help assess and monitor security posture of 3Ps building mechanisms to identify and monitor usage of 3Ps and improving existing capabilities of S3T. The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Key job responsibilities - Solving evolving security problems that require novel methods or approaches - Leading security projects (including security reviews, tool development, and creation of new security practices) with end-to-end ownership - Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of use cases - Acting as technical security specialist on risk-based security reviews and assessments - Collecting/reviewing data from multiple sources to conduct a security review
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