Penetration Testing Engineer, Security Testing
Job ID: 2903630 | Amazon Data Services Spain, S.L.
We are looking for a Penetration Testing Engineer who has a strong passion for security-at-scale. You will be on a team 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.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud service provider, providing virtualised infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world, including government customers. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. 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.
We are looking for a Security Engineer to help ensure all of our web services and applications are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for web application, network, and operations penetration testing, automating repetitive tasks, and influencing Amazon services through the creation of threat mitigation plans.
You must produce results in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge, and foster constructive dialogue and drive resolution when faced with disagreement. You are considered a technical leader on your team. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas in existing or new hardware and software initiatives. You take a long term view of your team's processes & software, understanding how it fits into the business.
Key job responsibilities
1. Perform penetration testing of complex proprietary software and hardware for AWS services
2. Manually audit the source code of web services and software authored in-house by Amazon
3. Write proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issue
4. Provide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fix
5. Partner with AWS developers to drive improvement in application security as a result of security
6. Provide actionable long term risk mitigation guidance.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Customer Security, or equivalent professional experience can be used in lieu of a degree
- Experience with multiple programming languages and deploying code in an enterprise environment
- Demonstrable experience using boto3
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