Senior Penetration Tester, AWS Security - ADC

Amazon - Herndon, VA

Full-time - Senior

Herndon, VA

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About the position

AWS Security is looking for a Red Team Senior Security Engineer to help ensure that our systems and processes are secured against the latest threats. You will be on a team responsible for conducting offensive campaigns, emergent threat testing, creating and maintaining automated threat emulation solutions, and helping security and service teams add offensive insight to their development, deployment, monitoring, and response processes. Offensive security at scale is a unique challenge - AWS possesses both scale of systems and scale of staff and processes. This position will provide you with a challenging opportunity. A Security Engineer at Amazon is expected to be strong in multiple domains. This is a leadership role within the AWS IT Security team and will be sought out for advice on technical and business issues. Efficient time management skills are required along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty. A Security Engineer will proactively share knowledge across the Amazon community and will be a key company resource in one or more of the core areas of security. They will lead security reviews of large Amazon projects while setting standards and defining best practices for the AWS IT Security team. Engineers in this role must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals. They must also demonstrate resilience and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact. Conflicts should be addressed by listening, finding the best way forward and persuading one's colleagues. Successful engineers in this role will regularly analyze their own performance with a critical eye. A broad understanding of the AWS business and its interconnections is required. This position will also provide training, advice, and mentorship to other engineers throughout AWS. This role will be expected to provide thought leadership for the organization as you invent and innovate in the course of your duties.

Responsibilities

• Vulnerability Identification and Tracking
• Offensive security testing & vulnerability research
• Emergent threat testing
• Creating/maintaining automated threat emulation solutions
• Recommendation of findings and threat mitigations
• Produce high quality red team reports
• Projects and research work as needed
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams
• Security guidance documentation
• Security tool development
• Security metrics delivery and improvements
• Assistance with recruiting activities

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5 + years of experience with red teaming, vulnerability testing, and/or auditing techniques
• 5 + years of security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, security operations, and application security
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Nice-to-haves

• Domain expertise in at least 3 of: security architecture and engineering, communication and network security, identity and access management (IAM), security assessment and testing, software development security, and security operations.
• Experience with driving large, company-wide initiatives
• Experience managing customer relationships, expectations, deliverables
• Expert level understanding in at least one core area of Information Security
• Experience using various penetration testing tools (such as, BurpSuite, Metasploit, Nessus, Cobalt Strike, etc.) on Windows and Linux
• Experience with multiple programming languages (such as, Java, C++, C#), especially scripting languages (such as, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
• Experience with reverse engineering
• Understanding of mobile device security
• Experience providing training and mentorship

Benefits

• Flexible schedule to promote work-life balance
• Employee-led affinity groups
• Annual and ongoing learning experiences
• Innovative benefit offerings