Embark on a Mission to Fortify Amazons Defenses as a Support Engineer with the Vulnerability Management & Remediation Operations team!
Amazon Security is seeking an experienced and innovative Support Engineer specializing in cybersecurity to join our Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMRO) team in Austin Texas. The VMRO team is a global team that is responsible for assessing detecting and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.
Key job responsibilities
- Support vulnerability detection campaigns by working closely with Campaign Owners to launch and continuously improve the quality of campaigns across Amazon.
- Assess and negotiate with customers to drive down security risk by engaging with teams to remediate critical security vulnerabilities in their environments.
- Collaborate with builder teams to implement security fixes and improvements.
- Understand technical details of vulnerabilities affecting Amazons infrastructure services and applications.
- Review and analyse common vulnerability disclosures and assist in evaluating potential impacts.
- Help triage vulnerabilities and contribute to impact and detection logic assessments.
- Contribute to the development of automation of repetitive tasks.
- Actively participate in updating documentation and sharing knowledge across your global peers.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.
If youre excited about the opportunity to make a significant impact on the security of one of the worlds largest and most complex technology ecosystems from our Austin office wed love to hear from you!
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 Amazons 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 its 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
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll 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 theres nothing we cant achieve.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Software Engineering Cybersecurity or related technical degree or equivalent; or 3 years equivalent technology experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of web protocols common attacks and working knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture combined with understanding of security best practices
- Ability to communicate effectively within technical and business settings
- 2 years of experience in Security Operations technology audit or security vulnerability lifecycle management
- Experience with secure-cloud configuration (CloudTrail AWS Config) cloud-security technologies (VPC Security Groups WAF etc.) and cloud-permission systems (IAM)
- Strong understanding of security concepts with demonstrated experience in identity and access management including SSO SAML RBAC authentication and authorization solution
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