Sr. Security Engineer , European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) Threat Intelligence

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Dublin, IE

The European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) Threat Intelligence team, part of Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI), is responsible for developing actionable intelligence on advanced cyber threats to AWS services and AWS customers operating in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. We obtain indicators and other intelligence from a variety of internal and external sources and use that information to develop an understanding of sophisticated actors and their tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). We leverage that understanding to proactively identify and mitigate malicious activity.

The successful candidate will analyze both attributed and unattributed actor TTPs to generate intelligence and insights into current threats. A deep understanding of current cyber threat actors as well as experience performing question-driven analysis is required. As a Senior Security Intelligence Engineer, you will help enhance our capabilities by identifying new data sources, formulating new analytic techniques, and working across teams to drive their supporting capabilities. You will likewise work to harness expansive data sets and generate actionable and unique insights from them using database querying and statistical analysis. Your efforts will uncover previously-unknown threats and help drive innovation and continual improvement in the "state-of-the-art" of cyber threat intelligence analysis and dissemination at Amazon.

Eligibility requirement

To deliver enhanced operational resilience within the EU, only EU-citizen AWS employees who are located in the 44 EU will have control of the operations and support for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Key job responsibilities

- Perform deep dive analysis of malicious artifacts.

- Analyze large and unstructured data sets to discover new threats, uncover trends, and identify anomalies indicative of malicious activities.

- Create security techniques and automation for internal use that enable you and others to operate at high speed and broad scale.

- Contribute to Amazon's understanding of the current threat landscape and the techniques, tactics, and procedures associated with specific threats.

- Draft and publish finished written threat intelligence products based on findings.

- Periodic on-call responsibilities.

About the team

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

On-Call Responsibility

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. 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.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

- Experience with any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing

- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.

- Experience with research and investigation skills or equivalent

- This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state

Preferred qualifications

- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

- Experience with Linux and/or Windows Operating System support including in-depth understanding of one or both OSs, configuring, managing or troubleshooting systems at scale

- Experience with designing and building application using AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes

- Experience with malware analysis, network flow analysis, and large scale data analysis.

- Experience with modern threat intelligence platforms (TIPs), especially the Vertex Project's Synapse, and their APIs

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