# Forensic Security Engineer III, ITI Forensics

Amazon Security is hiring a senior Security Engineer to take on our hardest digital forensic investigations and build the tools that make them faster and easier. This is a senior forensics role: you set technical direction, solve cases no one else can, and raise the bar for the whole team. You will: - Run complex insider-threat and misconduct investigations end to end -- consult, acquire forensically sound data, and analyze it. - Guide other engineers through their hardest cases and sharpen how the team works. - Partner with customers across Amazon Security and Legal, build trust, and turn that trust into new work. - Design and ship forensic tooling in Python and AWS CDK that unlocks new data sources and scales to meet the demands of Amazon's ecosystem. We invent new ways to do forensic acquisition and processing in a remote, cloud-first world -- all on AWS. Key job responsibilities - Lead the toughest digital forensic investigations end to end: customer consultation, forensically sound acquisition, and analysis across laptops, mobile devices, AWS cloud resources, and large log sets. - Drive technical direction for how the team runs investigations, and raise the bar on quality, sou

- **Id**: 4269555
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-forensic-security-engineer-iii-iti-forensics>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Arlington, United States, Seattle, United States, Herndon, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T17:17:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T17:17:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7051
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4651
- **Ghost share**: 0.001
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 178400
- **Max**: 226700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 226700

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS CDK** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T17:17:56Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T20:53:45Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 226700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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