Amazon
AWS Security Operations/Incident Response Engineer, US Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security
$136K–$184K
Herndon, VA · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Education
- Associate's degree or above, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+
About the job
Responds to security incidents affecting AWS infrastructure for national security customers, coordinates investigations, and builds tools to improve security operations.
What you'll do
- Analyze security telemetry and logs, perform forensics, and respond to incidents while helping prevent recurrence.
- Coordinate security-event responses across teams and communicate risks and mitigations to leadership.
- Build internal security tools, promote security engineering best practices, and fulfill on-call responsibilities.
What they ask for
- Associate's degree or above, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
- US citizenship
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS products and services
Pay
136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, GovCloud
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