Penetration Testing Engineer (Hardware/Firmware/Virtualization), AWS Proactive Security

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. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises to large government customers, run their operations and applications on AWS’ highly secure infrastructure. 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. The surface area is large and diverse, and we use results found in manual analysis to help improve our enterprise-wide automation to proactively spot and fix potential security issues to protect customers.

We are looking for a Security Engineer to help secure our foundational platforms with an emphasis on hardware. You will be responsible for conducting security reviews including hands-on security evaluations (penetration testing), analyzing threat models, and developing tooling that will help detect security issues at scale.

You should be comfortable with tackling novel technical situations, and conducting hands-on testing of new, unique surfaces, to ensure proper security mitigations are in place. You will provide clear technical direction and risk mitigation guidance for diverse engineering and business leaders.

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. You work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance. 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. You proactively fix architectural deficiencies and/or propose larger project scopes, which may require the work of a team. You split that work into parallel tasks that can be performed by you and others and then reassembled successfully.

Amazon's Leadership Principles of "Dive Deep", "Earn Trust", "Deliver Results", and "Invent and Simplify" will be called upon daily. A successful candidate will need a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of complex decisions.

Key job responsibilities
* Perform penetration testing of complex proprietary software and hardware for Amazon servers and devices.
* Manually audit the source code of services and software authored in house by Amazon.
* Write proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issue.
* Provide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fix.
* Partner with AWS builders to drive improvement as a result of security review engagements.
* Provide actionable long term risk mitigation guidance.

A day in the life
About the team:
Pre-Launch Security Testing 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. The AWS surface area is large and diverse, and we use results found in manual analysis to help improve our enterprise-wide automation to proactively spot and fix potential security issues to protect customers.

About the team
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.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
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, training, 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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.

Basic Qualifications

- BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience and Minimum of 3 years of professional experience with Security Engineering or Development of Security capabilities, supporting engineering projects from concept to delivery.
- 1 years in one or more of the following technical categories:
- Virtualization security (Xen, KVM, QEMU) and hardware security (PCB, JTAG, UART, SPI, ROM, microcode, custom ASIC/FPGA)
- x86 and/or ARM chipset and firmware security (TPM, UEFI, TrustZone, Secure Boot, PCIe) and security testing of compute platforms (Server, PC or Mobile)

Preferred Qualifications

- MS in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field, or equivalent work experience and demonstrated ability to prepare technical specifications and communications
- Demonstrated understanding of crypto basics (encryption, signing, certificates, common algorithms)
- Familiarity with AWS services (EC2, GuardDuty, S3, IAM, Kinesis, Lambda, KMS, VPC, etc), relevant security standards (TCG, IEEE, NIST, FIPS, PCI, ISO 28000 series) and familiarity with crypto security design concepts (e.g. certificate handling and PKI, attestation, TPM/HSM)
- Knowledge of Windows, Linux, and hypervisor security (especially in cloud environments)

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