Embark on a Mission to Fortify Amazons Defenses as a Security Engineer 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 Sydney Australia. 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 Amazons 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 oncall responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.
Bachelors 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 in vulnerability management and remediation roles
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
Extensive experience in vulnerability management and remediation operations
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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