• We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers
• We want someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building
• You are an experienced engineer
• BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, (or) 3+ years’ equivalent technology experience
• 3 + years experience building scalable incident response utilities and tools for internal use that enable your fellow Security Engineers to operate at high speed and wide scale
• 3 years’ experience with focus in areas such as systems, network, and/or application security
• 3 + years experience with web protocols and Linux/Unix tools and architecture
• 3+ years experience in host, network and application security
• 2+ years experience building automated tools in any of these languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, and/or Ruby

Desirable

• Amazon Data Services France is looking for a highly motivated Security Engineer to help build and scale security, while responding to security issues across the largest cloud provider in the world
• As an Operational Research Security Engineer you will be expected to drive operational excellence in everything we do
• This includes creating sane processes, procedures and automation to improve efficiency in our day-to-day tasks and projects
• You will work closely on supporting internal customers, ensuring that their needs and issues are being addressed
• As a team member, you are part of an oncall rotation to provide critical support for Security Operations team
• You also perform research to enhance the stance of Security, and the efficiency of Operations, through metrics and various data analysis
• You will be integral to developing and improving incident and change management within the security space
• Responsibilities include driving initiatives regarding improvements to existing tools & processes and providing feedback on new practices & procedures in order to scale with the rapid expansion of the Amazon platform and customer base
• As an Operational Research Security Engineer you will be expected to drive quality into the metrics we report to assist us in focusing on the areas that give us the best ROI. This includes measurement of our project plans, issues, and cycle times
• Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members
• We generally keep core business hours of 9:30 - 4:30UTC, while allowing flexibility as needed. At Security, it’s not about clocking hours, it’s about delivering results
• This position involves on-call escalation responsibilities
• We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant
• When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice
• You engage autonomously with product and system owners to help create, build and innovate security operations
• You contribute to the strategic vision for your team, partnering effectively with customers and stakeholders. You establish a roadmap and successfully deliver engineering solutions that execute that vision
• You are able to independently make short-term vs. long-term decisions. You define clear goals and objectives. You make crisp decisions about what projects move forward and in what priority order
• You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your manager, customers, and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks. You know when to escalate
• You communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences. You are able to write narratives and strategic documentation
• You work successfully with customers, leaders, and other engineering teams
• You define metrics to measure customer experience, solution quality, and operational excellence
• Your team has customer engagement mechanisms, adheres to SLAs, and effectively manages operations
• You review new and ongoing security mitigations to implement, analysing the proposed path forward and course correcting rapidly
• You align the short term requirements with our long term investments, consistently measuring innovation impact, and proposing out-of-the box solutions
• You identify gaps by constantly challenging the norms. Every little innovation could result in days of operational improvement for customers