Herndon, VA, US
125 days ago
Senior Security Engineer, RSCI Vector Security
Do you have a passion for innovation and building technologies that make large-scale clouds more reliable, efficient, and scalable? Would you like to work within the most advanced and scaled clouds that support the most critical workloads for the US Intelligence and Defense communities? Do you want to build automation that will influence the national security and defense mission agency partners of AWS?

The Regions Services Corporate Infrastructure (RSCI) Vector Security Team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to help validate that our services, applications, and infrastructure are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. Similarly, our highly collaborative team is committed to each team member’s growth as our business grows.

Our mission is to deliver robust, highly available, and easy to use services to our internal customers in support of the Amazon Dedicated Cloud for U.S. Government customers.

The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for ensuring the appropriate operational security posture is maintained for the US ADC Remote Management and Administration (RM&A) networks. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for analyzing the security of infrastructure, applications and services, discovering and addressing security issues, building security automation, and quickly reacting to new threat scenarios. You will have the opportunity to learn from, and be mentored by, those who are building and securing our cutting-edge services.

You are expected to be strong in multiple security domains and provide significant contributions to the Engineering team and to multiple groups throughout Amazon. You are expected to closely work with service teams to develop secure solutions to complex business problems and ensure we are holding a high security bar for our customers. You are also expected to mentor more junior engineers and be a security thought leader for the organization.

You must foster constructive dialogue and seek resolution when confronted with discordant views. Engineers in this role are expected to participate fully in the planning of the org’s team work and constantly seek opportunities for process improvement. You should also have a deep understanding of at least one specialty for which you are a sought – out resource (both within IT Security and by groups throughout Amazon), while having an understanding of the application of Information Security in a broad range of technical areas.

You will be “Customer Obsessed”, working closely with our customers to understand their pain points and find resolution quickly and completely.
You will have a keen eye for potential problems and inefficiencies, and the initiative and drive to provide a complete solution to the problem. You will communicate clearly and collaborate with others to deliver results with minimal supervision. This leader must be able to dive deep into the details of business, operations, and engineering.

If Arlington, VA (HQ2):

This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.

By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

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Key job responsibilities
• Conduct pre-launch security reviews
• Hardening of Windows services aligned with NIST Compliance requirements
• Security training and outreach to internal development teams
• Security guidance documentation
• Security tool development
• Security metrics delivery and improvements
• Work with builders and service teams to address detected security problems in an appropriate and timely fashion.
• Identify and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation.
• Identify opportunities to prevent security problems at scale.
• Document and provide security guidance that will be used across ADC Windows environments


A day in the life
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, 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 we 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.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We are dedicated to supporting our new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. 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, mentorship 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 in the cloud.


About the team
Region Services (RS) Operations – Corporate Infrastructure mission is twofold; owns and drives strategic, operational and tactical initiatives that improve Amazon Dedicated Clouds (ADC) operations by designing, operating and managing secure spaces including Remote Management Facilities (RMFs) and Remote Management Administration (RM&A) air-
gapped environments. Our solutions support worldwide ADC operations teams to consume RM&A, RMF, and air-gapped Microsoft back office and Windows desktop operational designs, tooling, and build plans.

Our core objective is to breakdown the complexity of building and operating first-class secure spaces posturing Amazon as the premiere cloud service provider for customers requiring secure computing solutions.
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