Senior Penetration Testing Engineer Job at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc., Texas

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  • Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
  • Texas

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Do you enjoy finding unique security issues? Do you enjoy protecting customers at scale? Do you enjoy mentoring and leading engineers to solve problems? On the AWS Penetration Testing team, as a Senior Penetration Testing Engineer you will be responsible for the delivery of continuous assessments. You will be asked to solve complex technology problems, build tools to automate your way out of manual efforts, and influence the way Amazon services respond to and mitigate threats.

Our team is responsible for the manual assessment of all products, services and software released by AWS. We specialize in digging deep to find security issues that static analysis tools can’t, and write the tooling to help with these goals whenever possible. The AWS surface area is large and diverse, and we use results found in manual analysis to help improve our enterprise-wide automation to proactively spot and fix potential security issues to protect customers.

We are looking for a Senior Penetration Testing Engineer to help ensure our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for application and/or hardware penetration testing. You will be responsible for automating repetitive tasks using various scripting languages. You will be responsible for mentoring and leading other engineers to deliver complex penetration tests and vulnerability assessments. You will be expected to drive automation, tooling, efficiency and advance the teams penetration testing capabilities. You will be responsible for influencing Amazon services through the creation of threat mitigation plans. You will work directly with internal teams to solve challenging software and security problems.

Key job responsibilities
* Perform penetration testing complex proprietary software and hardware for AWS services
* Manually audit the source code of web services and software authored in house by Amazon
* Write proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issue
* Provide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fix
* Partner with AWS developers to drive improvement in application security as a result of security review engagements
* Provide actionable long-term risk mitigation guidance to internal and external stakeholder
* Conduct independent vulnerability research pertaining to AWS relevant technologies

About the team
About Amazon Security

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, degree in similar technical field, or equivalent professional experience can be used in lieu of a degree.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in security testing (Penetration testing, Vulnerability testing, Red teaming, bug hunting, CTF experience, or related field).
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with manually auditing source code (One or more of: Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Rust, C, others) to find security issues.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience scripting in Python or other equivalent interpreted languages.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with 2 or more areas of security engineering practices such as in web application security, network security, authentication and authorization protocols, cryptography, automation and other software security disciplines; and experience with AWS technologies and services (e.g. S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM, etc.).

Job Tags

Full time, Flexible hours,

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