Job Description
DESCRIPTION
The Customer Logistics Security (CLS) team is currently hiring for a Security Engineer II to join us in securing our customers across Amazon's Worldwide Operations and Physical Retail Stores . The CLS team, delivers solutions to address business security that empower our business units to operate securely, at speed, with minimal friction.
In this role, you will be responsible for performing security reviews and assessments of the organization's identity systems (authentication and authorization), and cloud environments to identify potential vulnerabilities and risks. You will strive to understand systems, software, and services deeply to find security weaknesses and gaps. You will help mitigate vulnerabilities/risks by providing actionable guidance to engineering teams and drive long term security improvements. You will build automation and tooling to solve security problems at scale for our customers.
Key job responsibilities
- Conduct high-quality security reviews of identity infrastructure systems and environments.
- Assist in the implementation of security controls and hardening measures to mitigate identified risks.
- Review and assess infrastructure configurations, policies, and procedures for compliance with security best practices and industry standards.
- Create detailed engagement plans and thoroughly document findings, gaps, and remediation recommendations.
- Contribute to security tooling and improvements.
- Collaborate with partner teams and service owners to influence, prioritize, and drive the resolution of discovered security findings.
A day in the life
As a security engineer, you will perform various day-to-day activities related to ensuring the security of Amazon's systems. These tasks may include conducting security reviews to identify vulnerabilities in infrastructure systems that could be exploited by attackers, providing training and outreach to internal development teams to improve their understanding of security best practices, developing security guidance documentation to help others understand how to implement secure systems and applications, delivering security metrics to stakeholders and working on improving the overall security posture of our customers
About the team
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.
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.
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 and 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.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- 2+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- 3+ years of experience in infrastructure security, application security or related field.
- 2+ Years experience in identity systems such as active directory
Job Tags
Full time, Worldwide, Currently hiring, Flexible hours,