Penetration Testing Engineer, Aws Proactive Security Milano

Penetration Testing Engineer, Aws Proactive Security
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Penetration Testing Engineer, AWS Proactive SecurityDESCRIPTION

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 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.

You will be responsible for automating repetitive tasks.

You will be responsible for influencing Amazon services through the creation of threat mitigation plans.

You will work directly with internal teams to solve challenging software problems.

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 AWS servicesManually audit the source code of web services and software authored in-house by AmazonWrite proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issueProvide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fixPartner with AWS developers to drive improvement in application security as a result of securityProvide actionable long term risk mitigation guidance. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with AWS technologies and services (e. g.

S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM, etc. )

and minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in professional penetration testing, source code auditing, bug hunting, or CTF experience

- Domain expertise in at least two areas, including: security architecture and engineering, communication and network security, identity and access management (IAM), security assessment and testing, cryptography, and software development security

- Experience finding security issues in multiple languages (including one or more of: Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Rust, C) and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience scripting in Python or other equivalent interpreted languages

- Minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience with security engineering practices such as in web application security, network security, authentication and authorization protocols, cryptography, automation and other software security disciplines

PREFERRED 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

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer.

We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.

We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.

We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

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