Cleared Security Intelligence Engineer, AWS Threat Intelligence

DESCRIPTION

The AWS Threat Intelligence team, part of Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI), is responsible for developing actionable intelligence on advanced cyber threats to AWS services and AWS customers. We obtain indicators and intelligence from a variety of internal and external sources and use that information to develop an understanding of sophisticated actors and their tools, techniques, and procedures. We then leverage that understanding to proactively identify and mitigate malicious activity.

The successful candidate will analyze indicators to generate actionable intelligence and insight into current threats. As a Security Intelligence Engineer, you will help enhance our capabilities by formulating new analytic techniques and working across teams to drive the supporting capabilities. A deep understanding of current cyber threat actors and TTPs as well as experience performing question-driven analysis is required. You will leverage your understanding of networking- and host-based indicators, digital forensics, and database querying as you investigate incidents and threats as well.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.

Key job responsibilities

• Perform deep dive analysis of malicious artifacts.

• Analyze large and unstructured data sets to identify trends and anomalies indicative of malicious activities.

• Create security techniques and automation for internal use that enable you to operate at high speed and broad scale.

• Provide situational awareness on the current threat landscape and the techniques, tactics and procedures associated with specific threats.

• Pursue actionable intelligence on current threats as they relate to AWS.

• Periodic on-call responsibilities.

About the team

About Amazon Security

Diverse Experiences

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Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Annapolis Junction, MD, USA | Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BS degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems (MIS), Computer Engineering, or similar degree, or 3+ years equivalent technology experience without a degree

• 3 years experience with tracking high-sophistication cyber threat groups

• 3 years experience across system security, network security, application security, and/or digital forensics

• 2 years experience with SQL or other query languages.

• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems (MIS), Computer Engineering, or similar degree

• Direct experience tracking and countering cyber threat actors located in China or Russia

• Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, and or OS X internals

• Experience with malware analysis, network flow analysis, and large scale data analysis.

• Experience with modern threat intelligence platforms (TIPs)

• Experience with AWS services

• Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role

• Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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