Amazon - Annapolis Junction, MD
posted 3 months ago
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.