Security Engineer II, AWS Security, Hardware Supply Chain Security

Security Engineer II, AWS Security, Hardware Supply Chain Security

Job ID: 2781676 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Cloud security is our highest priority at AWS. As an AWS customer, you benefit from an environment built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. As an AWS Security team member, you will help secure that environment for our customers while working on cutting edge security products for a variety of platforms and technologies, all operating at massive scale.
We are looking for an experienced security engineer with networking and hardware experience to join the AWS team.

The Hardware Supply Chain Security team evaluates the risk within AWS operating environments and works with teams across the company to develop creative mitigations for the global AWS fleet. This holistic view of risk spans specific domains of hardware, networking, and human operations. In this role the security engineer will look across these areas to identify risks and propose mitigations. They will hunt down and discover security vulnerability in AWS data center operations. Our team proactively identifies gaps, vulnerabilities, and solutions across the entire lifecycle of the datacenter.

As a security engineer, you will own the relationships with customer teams, dive deep to understand the security risks and business challenges, leveraging your years of broad and deep experience to help formulate and drive more secure outcomes. You will dive deep to understand where logical controls thwart physical and remote attackers. You will use threat models, assume breach, and devise strategies to prevent and detect remote attackers in our cutting edge environments. AWS operates at very large scale and demands high standards, so a passion and discipline around security and delivery is critical. A high level of ownership and accountability is a must.

Key job responsibilities
- Work with stakeholders to ensure new and existing processes are secure
- Calibrate with broader team on security findings
- Review processes to ensure secure mechanisms exist and validate security controls
- Establish mechanisms to introduce security controls reducing individual reviews

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- 3+ years of Hardware Security and Operational Supply Chain Security experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ 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
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++

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Posted: August 14, 2024