Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations

Embark on a Mission to Fortify Amazon's Defences as a Security Engineer II with the Vulnerability Management & Remediation Operations team!

Amazon Security is seeking an experienced and innovative Security Engineer to join our Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMRO) team in London, UK. The VMRO team is responsible for discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.

Key job responsibilities

- Analyse public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code.

- Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.

- Investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.

- Support response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix their security issues in a timely manner.

- Engineer high quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms.

- Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.

- Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.

About the team

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.

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 & 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.

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.

Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic qualifications

- 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 object oriented language

- 5 years security engineering experience in system, network, and/or application security

- 5 years experience developing vulnerability assessment tests with Python or Java.

- 5 years experience improving accuracy of vulnerability detection mechanisms across a diverse technical ecosystem

- 3 years experience troubleshooting networking, operating systems, applications, or cloud services.

- 3 years experience building cloud-based services

Preferred qualifications

- 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 AWS services

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