Amazon
Security Engineer II, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)
$159K–$202K
Arlington, VA · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years in each of the specified basic-qualification experience areas; the degree requirement can alternatively be met with 2+ years of IT Security experience. Preferred experience includes 2+ years in a combination of listed areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
About the job
Responds to Amazon security incidents, analyzes threats and root causes, and develops solutions to strengthen incident response and protect systems and sensitive data.
What you'll do
- Respond to incidents and coordinate response across teams, including customer-facing incidents.
- Analyze threats and security events, conduct root-cause analysis, and recommend improvements to incident response capabilities.
- Support and mentor security engineers, assess emerging security research and trends, and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
- Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
Nice to have
- 2+ years of any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security experience.
- Knowledge of HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP; experience with AWS products and services or security activities across one or more SDLC phases.
Pay
159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
HTTP(S), DNS, TCP/IP, AWS
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