Company Name: Amazon
Company Location: Herndon, VA
Description
The Amazon Web Services Threat Intel Group is responsible for developing actionable intelligence on large scale fraud and abuse actors leveraging AWS. We collect indicators and intelligence from a variety of internal and external sources and use that information to develop an understanding of cybercrime actors and their tools, techniques, and procedures. We then leverage that understanding to proactively identify and mitigate large scale malicious activity within AWS.
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You will be required to analyze telemetry data to identify signals indicative of large scale fraud and abuse. 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 cybercrime and fraud actors and TTPs as well as experience performing question-driven analysis is required. You should have a solid understanding of network and host based indicators and how to best leverage them. You should be able to script and help automate recurring tasks to improve the overall effectiveness of the team. An understanding of operating systems internals will be an asset.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Perform deep dive analysis of potentially malicious artifacts.
- Pursue actionable intelligence on cybercrime threats as they relate to AWS.
- Translate actor TTPs into actionable data points to reduce overall fraud and abuse activity in AWS
- Analyze large structured and unstructured data sets to identify trends and anomalies indicative of malicious activities.
- Create security techniques and automation for internal use that enable the team to operate at high speed and broad scale.
- Periodic on-call responsibilities.
Basic Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or 5+ years equivalent technology experience.
- 2 years experience with tracking cybercrime and fraud groups and other high grade threats.
- 2 years experience in system, network, and/or application security.
- 2 years experience building automated tools in C, C++, Python, PowerShell, or Bash
- 2 years experience in either incident response or active tracking of cyber criminal activity
- 1 year experience with SQL or other query languages
Preferred Qualifications
- MS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or 8+ years’ equivalent technology experience.
- 5+ years of experience in cybercrime and fraud research and analysis.
- Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, and or OS X internals
- Experience with malware analysis, network flow analysis and large scale data analysis.
- Experience with AWS services.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Need Security Training?
- Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks by IBM
- Financial Markets by Yale University
- International Cyber Conflicts from the State University of New York
- Business Foundations by University of Pennsylvania
- (sponsored)
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Company – Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc.
Job ID: A1117833
