Job ID: 3088343 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start‐ups to enterprises, run their operations and applications on AWS' multi‐tenant infrastructure.
Key Job Responsibilities
As a Senior Security Engineer, you'll build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon's infrastructure. You'll work with data scientists, software development engineers, and other security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions. You'll protect the AWS cloud for all customers and preserve customer trust using the full breadth of AWS technologies.
You will be working in a team of industry‐leading security experts, operating and continuously improving security programs and processes for personnel security, physical and logical accreditations, education, awareness and training, assurance, and cyber security. This role has visibility at senior levels of government agencies, commercial institutions, and AWS, including interaction with CISOs, CTOs, and AWS senior leadership.
In addition to a strong understanding of security technologies, tool development, offensive and defensive security tactics, and ideally experience with distributed systems, you'll need to be a UK national and obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance.
Basic Qualifications
Extensive experience performing security investigations, penetration testing, and/or incident response in the context of large organisations.
In‐depth understanding of security threats, hands‐on experience detecting and defending from cyber attacks, and experience using big data analytics and orchestration to address security challenges.
Code development experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, or Rust, and security code review.
Demonstrated technical leadership in security (e.g., tech lead, developed security architecture for a product or system, led technical component of a security project).
Experience leading and coaching junior security engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness.
Preferred Qualifications
BS or MS in a STEM related field.
Understanding of the Mitre ATT&CK framework and knowledge of host and network telemetry data (e.g., process lists, application logs, NetFlow).
Awareness and understanding of current cyber security threats, actors and techniques; experience with data science and big‐data analytics technology stack, analytic development for endpoint and network security, and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Kinesis).
Strong sense of ownership combined with a collaborative approach to influencing organisational change.
Amazon is an equal‐opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. If you need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.
Posted: September 30, 2025
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