AmazonSenior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations, Defensive Security
Amazon is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations, Defensive Security in Seattle, United States. It pays $178k-$227k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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- Level rates this cybersecurity role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The listed pay starts 12% above the typical cybersecurity posting on Level.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include vulnerability management, security engineering and automation.
- Level lists 21,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
- The role was posted within the past week.
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Lead vulnerability management and remediation operations across the Amazon ecosystem.जै
If you're excited about the opportunity to make a significant impact on the security of one of the world's largest and most complex technology ecosystems, we'd love to hear from you!
Key job responsibilities
- Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.
- Lead the detection and analysis of vulnerabilities through the development and optimization of vulnerability scanning, correlation, and prioritization capabilities.
- Thoroughly investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.
- Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
- Partner with software engineering and operations teams to identify and increase coverage and detection capability gaps across Amazon.
- Mentor and train junior security engineers, sharing your expertise in vulnerability management best practices.
- Collaborate with information security leadership to set the strategic direction for the AVMS program and report on key performance metrics.
- 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
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.
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.
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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic qualifications
- 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
- Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
Preferred qualifications
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations, Defensive Security at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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