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Re:U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity by MattGaiser on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:33AM (#27255702)
> But I'd have a hard time finding a security engineering job that pays similarly to what I get paid currently as a support engineer for AWS's security services.

I would assume that AWS would be near the top of compensation no matter what job when looking at American companies.

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Re:U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity by whoknew1122 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:40AM (#27255781)
Really depends on what Org you're working for. I've had a lot of colleagues in support get pulled away to SaaS vendors to get paid more. I actually talked with a friend the other day who essentially offered me a job with 50% the workload and $30k+ more per year.

While SDE/SDMs/etc. probably get paid the top of the compensation when looking across companies, support isn't the same. Also, most of that is likely tied up in RSUs.

But I know for a fact L4 people in AWS's SOC get paid more than L5s in support. But AWS's SOC isn't a remote position, and I'm not in a position to move to where the SOC teams are located.

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Re:U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity by killingtime74 on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:09AM (#27262065)
What is SOC
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Re:U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity by zentr1c on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:46AM (#27262247)
Security Operations center.

Centralized logs,analyse and react on incidents.

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