Amazon - Annapolis Junction, MD

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Annapolis Junction, MD
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The U.S. Amazon Dedicated Cloud Information Security team is seeking an experienced Security Engineer with a strong background in assessing and testing computer hardware. In this role, you will be actively involved in conducting security reviews of hardware components and integrative infrastructure, as well as building and enhancing cloud architectures that support security programs. This may involve writing code or scripts and creating detection mechanisms to ensure robust security measures are in place. As a Security Engineer, you will be expected to provide technical guidance and recommendations that significantly influence the business and direction of the project team. You will have the opportunity to work directly with customers to deliver security outcomes that have a broad and lasting impact. Your role will require applying high judgment and making recommendations for engineering standards on both hardware and software systems. This is a hands-on position where your daily activities will include facilitating security reviews, performing threat modeling, configuring software and hardware test environments, and guiding or monitoring internal and external test personnel. You will also be responsible for addressing technical questions related to hardware implementations for cryptography, access, and threat mitigations. To succeed in this role, you will need to deliver timely results based on your deep technical expertise that delight your customers. It is important to note that this position requires the candidate to be a US Citizen and to possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Responsibilities

  • Providing security engineering solutions and support during customer-facing engagements, proactively addressing customer requirements while reducing risks.
  • Working alongside a team of Security Engineers to assess and reduce risk while delivering security outcomes for customers.
  • Enhancing a culture that holds a high quality security bar when building automated cloud infrastructure.
  • Translating functional and technical requirements for hardware and software systems into detailed architecture and design.
  • Providing recommendations and implementing solutions to hardware related challenges.

Requirements

  • 2+ years experience in computer hardware and networking.
  • 1+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, or Rust.
  • 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • Experience designing, building, and deploying complex and scalable software and hardware solutions in production.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science, or equivalent work experience.
  • Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Nice-to-haves

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt messaging for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience setting up hardware environments for security evaluations, including configuring data center hardware components and power systems.
  • Experience with secure application development, including static and dynamic application security testing, vulnerability scanning, and mitigation.
  • Understanding of software development and deployment practices, including feature branch management strategies and continuous integration.
  • Experience with AWS services.
  • Experience in vulnerability management or security operations.
  • Familiarity with hardware interfaces such as PCIe, JTAG, UART, I2C, SPI.
  • Familiarity with software system interfaces such as gRPC and REST.
  • Understanding of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Failover.

Benefits

  • Flexible schedule to promote work-life balance.
  • Innovative benefit offerings including employee-led affinity groups and ongoing learning experiences.
  • Annual conferences focused on diversity and inclusion.
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