Security Engineer II, Amazon Stores Security Healthcare
About the role
Amazon Healthcare Security's (HealthSec) Security Operations team is hiring a Security Engineer to be the first line of defense to our most critical customer data. You will be a guardian of healthcare information and work with Amazon Healthcare products to secure customer data. You will drive cross-team coordination, detection and monitoring management, and incident response for all of our medical related services. You will communicate and work with executives, Legal, and other key business and technical leaders to drive resolution of issues. You will get to work closely with our detection and monitoring organizations to define new ways to detect activities that may impact our customers and their health records. You will also get to work with other Security engineers from across HealthSec to drive new solutions into our systems to help secure data at a design and implementation level.
Key job responsibilities
- Evaluate vulnerability reports, security alerts, and customer issues
- Work alongside our Detection and Monitoring team to triage, understand, and improve security alerts
- Perform risk assessments and identify security vulnerabilities in workflows
- Advise engineering teams and stakeholders on security best practices including network security, identity management, and secure system configurations
- Collaborate with product development teams to integrate security solutions and controls
- Support security incident investigations related to infrastructure
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide ad hoc support to customers during non-business hours
- Drive security automation efforts including monitoring, triage, and alerting for key security risks
A day in the life
The HealthSec team is dedicated to protecting sensitive healthcare data and ensuring patient privacy across Amazon's healthcare services. We build and maintain security controls that safeguard protected health information while enabling innovation in healthcare technology. Amazon Security offers talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities across cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Basic qualifications
- 2+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
Preferred qualifications
- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- Experience or understanding of HIPAA regulations
Pay
- USA, TX, Austin - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Arlington - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually