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The VMRO team is responsible for discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.\nKey job responsibilities\n- Analyse public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code.\n- Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.\n- Investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.\n- Support response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix their security issues in a timely manner.\n- Engineer high quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms.\n- Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.\n- Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.\nBasic qualifications\n- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent\n- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP\n- 5+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience\n- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience\nPreferred qualifications\n- Experience with AWS products and services\n- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security\n- 5+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience\nAcknowledgement of country:\nIn the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. 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