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Summary Information:

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Systems Development Engineer to join our dynamic team in Austin, TX. In this role, you will be tackling complex, high-impact problems while developing, improving, and maintaining secure, scalable, high-performing systems. These systems should be low-maintenance and require minimal long-term sustaining and development. You will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies and solutions that span across multiple domains, offering ample opportunities to learn, innovate, and grow. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a passion for systems architecture and security—someone eager to contribute to technology solutions from a security-first perspective. No prior security technologies required, but an interest in learning and applying security best practices is highly encouraged. If you're passionate about building secure, scalable systems and are eager to grow your skills in this space, this is the role for you!

Company Overview:

ABOUT AmSec:

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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.

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.

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 and 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.

• You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new software with existing systems, ensuring compatibility and performance standards are met.
• You will work with a wide variety of technologies and projects that range from third party enterprise solutions to open source and proprietary inventions.
• You will develop automation scripts to streamline system processes, deployment workflows, and system monitoring tasks.
• You will create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including technical specifications, design diagrams, and implementation guides. Prepare regular reports on system performance and issues.
• We value security, performance, simplicity, and scalability in our designs. In your day-to-day work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand.
• Continuously monitor system performance, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability through optimizations.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in systems engineering and software development to recommend improvements to current processes and solutions.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, 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.

About the role

Exciting times ahead! We're expanding and looking for a dynamic Senior Network Security Engineer to join our local Network Services team! In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining high levels of security and network infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with our network and IT teams to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our data and systems.

About the company

NEC has a century-long history of innovation and for over 50 years in Australia, NEC has built a sophisticated technology and anything-as-a-service company which brings together the best technology and the smartest people driving customer service excellence. With a major focus on Public Safety, we deliver a complete portfolio of ICT solutions and services to large enterprise, small business, and government customers.

We are shaping the most efficient businesses and creating a safer society by solving tomorrow’s technology challenges.

NEC is a place where everyone can grow. So however you identify yourself or whatever background you bring with you. Please apply, if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.

• Design, implement, and maintain network/ security solutions, such as firewall, SD-WAN, VPN, and intrusion detection/prevention systems.
• Monitor network security systems for potential threats and vulnerabilities.
• Develop and implement security policies, procedures, and standards where needed.
• Conduct regular security audits and risk assessments.
• Act as an escalation point for high priority/complex security incidents.
• Respond to security incidents and breaches.
• Keep up to date with the latest security trends and threats.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in a security network environment, with experience designing and implementing firewalls, load-balancers, SD-WAN, and routers.
• Expert understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, QOS, BGP, OSPF, MPLS).
• Familiar with security standards like ISO 27000, NIST, and Essential 8.
• Experience with security tools (IDS/IPS, SIEM) and scripting (Python, Ansible) for automation.
• Vendor certifications (CCNP/CCIE Security, NSE6+, PCNSE, CCSE, CCSM, etc.)
• Extensive documentation skills and ability to produce quality artifacts (High/Low level designs, diagrams, as-build, handover).
• Strong communication skills and ability to build effective relationships.
• Mentoring skills to take empower and help grow the team’s local knowledge and expertise.
• ITIL process knowledge (Asset/Change/Incident management)

Desirables

• Understanding of Data Centre and Service Provider networks (MPLS, VRF, underlay/overlay, QoS).
• Network segmentation, Cisco SDA, Zero Trust, SASE.
• Experience with the design & deployment of SD-WAN solutions (Cisco and/or Fortinet).
• Understanding of cloud networking (Azure, AWS)

What’s in it for you?

At NEC, we offer an outstanding working environment, fantastic corporate culture and an excellent track record of internal promotions along with continuous learning and development opportunities. We place great emphasis on our staff satisfaction, and you will enjoy a wide range of benefits such as flexible work options, 14 weeks paid parental leave, NEC Partner Product Discounts, access to great discounts at many retail providers, health and wellbeing program and much more.

Summary Information about the Role:

In today’s highly connected world, managing and securing human and machine identities is essential to the safety and success of our workforce. The Identity & Access Management (IAM) team works within Global Information Services (GIS) and in close participation with all other Line of Business teams as well as second and third line of defense partners. IAM is the centralized governance function for the enterprise, driving consistency through end-to-end horizontal risk oversight as well as vertical, functional capabilities that provide comprehensive subject matter expertise on all IAM systems and services. This role is highly visible and requires frequent interaction with senior management and key stakeholders. In this role, the IAM Governance Analyst will be responsible for identifying IAM policy requirements, monitoring adherence, escalating compliance risks, driving remediation strategies and plans, as well as leading coordination for regulatory activities, e.g. audits, compliance self-testing activities, and regulatory exams.

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization. Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

• Support the planning, development and delivery to improve IAM compliance through governance activities
• Work with the Line of Business (LOB) Partners to manage identity lifecycle and access governance activities including developing, maintaining, and facilitating the socialization of IAM policy standards, processes, and procedures.
• Assist subject matter experts with the coordination and response to regulatory, audit, and compliance requests. This may include the entirety of the issue lifecycle e.g., development of issues, establishing action plans and producing required evidence aligned to action steps, as well as thematic review of the issue portfolio.
• Support automation of audit/compliance evidence gathering and metrics reporting
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop cutting-edge IAM policies and standards that iteratively support IAM enhancements across process, data, and technology.
• Engage and consult with all IAM capabilities to identify gaps and establish solutions to close gaps.
• Maintain end-to-end governance processes across the IAM space with aligned controls and metrics to evaluate control effectiveness.
• Participate in multiple forums with high level executives to communicate compliance expectations, provide strategic direction and oversight, and provide a mechanism for reviewing decisions with downstream impacts.
• Drive partnership with Operational Risk partners on IAM related Compliance Monitoring and Testing activities.
• Apply industry best practices, templates, and documentation while also proposing improvements.
• Clearly articulate the reasons and methods behind proposed changes through informative materials for educating others.
• Provide education to team members regarding the proposed changes.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to manage data and conduct data analytics, reviewing responses prior to delivery of regulatory, audit, and process responses.
• Recommended 3-5 years’ experience implementing IAM solutions, controls, and capabilities.
• Familiarity with NIST 800-53, COBIT, COSO, and/or ISO, and attack frameworks such as MITRE, as well as IAM-specific laws, rules, and regulations within the financial services sector.
• Experience planning, researching and developing security strategies, standards, and procedures.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong technical background and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to identify, analyze and address problems to resolve issues whenever possible in a way that minimizes negative impact and risk to the organization.
• Ability to work independently on initiatives with little oversight. Motivated and willing to learn.
• Strong analytical skills / problem solving / conceptual thinking.
• Ability to be comfortable delivering messages across a wide spectrum of audiences with varying degrees of technical understanding.
• Strong leadership skills and qualities which enable you to work with peers and various levels of management.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to question processes for the purpose of improving them.

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40

Pay Transparency details:

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Pay and benefits information

Pay range $76,500.00 - $136,400.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.