Penetration Testing Engineer, Security Testing Espinho

Penetration Testing Engineer, Security Testing
Espinho
Espinho, Aveiro District, Portugal

Penetration Testing Engineer, Security Testing

We are looking for a Penetration Testing Engineer who has a strong passion for
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- 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.

Our team is responsible for the manual assessment of all products, services, and software released by Amazon Web Services. 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
- 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, as well as automating repetitive tasks and 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
- 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

1. Perform penetration testing of complex proprietary software and hardware for AWS services.
2. Manually audit the source code of web services and software authored
   - house by Amazon.
3. Write proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issue.
4. Provide clear communication on issues to developers that suggest and help to test the fix.
5. Partner with AWS developers to drive improvement in application security as a result of security.
6. Provide actionable
   - term risk mitigation guidance.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
• Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, . Net, C++ or similar
  - oriented language.
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent.
• Experience with AWS products and services.
• Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++.

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