Amazon Careers – Senior Pentest Engineer

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Job Summary

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Do you enjoy breaking software and services? Do you strive to understand systems, software, and services deeply in order to break them? Do you find yourself automating away your work every single day? If so, we’re looking to hire you!

The Security pentest team is looking to hire a Senior Penetration Testing Security Engineer to join its ranks. Our team is responsible for performing manual penetration tests for all products, services, and software released by AWS. Our team is also responsible for scaling penetration testing. We write a variety of automated tooling (e.g. fuzzers, scanners, analyzers, etc.) to reduce the need to perform manual penetration testing.

If you’re passionate about finding security bugs, writing tools to reduce manual testing, and enjoy seeing your work’s impact across the internet, then this position is for you.

Responsibilities

• Execute manual penetration testing engagements against a variety of web services and software.
• Write automation to help scale security testing at AWS
• Provide actionable long-term risk mitigation guidance
• Conduct vulnerability research pertaining to AWS relevant technologies

Key job responsibilities

• Lead pentest engagements against Amazon services
• Coach and mentor less experienced engineers
• Act as a peer-partner to your line manager, acting as their tech lead within the team
• Audit code for vulnerabilities
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and execution of security review and test methodologies for the recurring and holistic testing of a critical group of our production services. Ensure remediation of risks by partnering with service teams.
• Perform design review, threat modelling, security review, penetration testing, and red teaming on production systems for our services.
• Demonstrate “exceptional” judgment, integrity, business acumen, and communication skills.

A day in the life

In this role you will do a combination of coaching other engineers, deep diving on hard technical security problems, and driving persistent change in your customers environment.

About The Team

We are Amazon’s security testing team. We ensure our internal customers launch and maintain secure services.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Basic Qualifications

• Script your way out of problems,
• Test web applications and services,
• Clearly explain the mitigation of your finding to blue team and product owners,
• Audit code well enough to find bugs,
• Be able to give design suggestions, like crypto and infra, when asked,
• Test infrastructure,
• Validate issues that exist and verify that the suggested fix works, and
• Learn new things quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS technologies and services (e.g. S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM, etc.)
• Experience with penetration testing, red teams, CTF (Capture The Flag), or bug bounties
• Experience with penetration testing tools
• Passionate about internet security issues and the threat landscape for popular software & services with the ability and desire to root-cause, mitigate, and explore deeper.
• Domain expertise in at least 3 of: security architecture and engineering, communication and network security, identity and access management (IAM), security assessment and testing, cryptography, and software development security.
• A data-driven and quantitative mentality–you excel in supporting ideas with available evidence.
• Experience with the design and implementation of technical security controls at the business division level.
• Experience performing or supporting Red Team engagements with an understanding of a holistic assessment

* Experience with multiple programming languages

• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age

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Company – Amazon Dev Centre (London) Ltd

Job ID: A2111724