This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
Key job responsibilities
You should be able to accomplish most of the following
Confidently and intelligently respond to security incidents, and proactively consider how to prevent the same type of incidents from occurring in the future.
Design and coordinate cohesive responses to security events that involve multiple teams across the organization.
Build security utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow Security Engineers to operate at high speed and wide scale.
Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of sensitivity, and multiple audiences.
Recognize, adopt and instill the best practices in security engineering fields throughout the organization: development, cryptography, network security, security operations, incident response, security intelligence.
Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities.
A day in the life
Your day opens with a scan of overnight security telemetry across GovCloud and U.S. ADC regions, where you triage alerts and pull threads on anything anomalous. When an incident surfaces, you move fast: analyzing logs, running forensics, and coordinating a cohesive response across multiple teams while keeping leadership informed in clear, risk-framed language. Between investigations, you build tooling that lets your fellow engineers detect and respond at greater speed and scale. You weigh technical risk against business needs, instill security best practices org-wide, and share on-call duty. Thinking like both attacker and defender, you protect the infrastructure our national security customers depend on.
About the team
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.
Associate's degree or above, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+
Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
Experience with AWS products and services
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Herndon - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually
