Security Engineer II, AWS Cloud Security Response
Core
Investigate and resolve security issues across 200+ AWS products by reproducing vulnerabilities, analyzing security data, and driving remediations through code and automation.
Role type
Senior IC security engineer (cloud incident response)
Builds
Automated incident response procedures and code-level remediations for AWS services
Domain
Cloud security, AWS infrastructure
Required skills
Security code review, vulnerability reproduction, incident response, IAM/access control, automation development, risk assessment, cross-team collaboration, mentoring
Preferred skills
Generative AI tool usage, architectural understanding of cloud services, proactive pattern identification
Technologies
AWS services, cloud infrastructure, scripting/programming languages
Responsibilities
Reproduce and validate reported security issues to assess exploitability and customer impact; Analyze security data across multiple sources to scope impact and prioritize remediation; Develop and validate code-level remediations partnering with service teams; Build automation to scale incident response and reduce manual effort; Identify recurring security patterns to drive proactive solutions preventing systemic issues; Communicate security issue status and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC