Amazon develops products and services that transform the way customers live. Across teams and geographies we strive to delight customers and earn their trust. Members of the Stores Security team are guardians of that trust. From drones to grocery stores and everything in between our mission is to assess risk classify data and systems detect potential intrusion and respond quickly to security events across Amazons critical business functions including Retail Customer Service Worldwide Operations Consumer Payments Physical Stores and Healthcare. Within Stores Security the Vulnerability Management and Remediation (VMR) organization is responsible for all aspects of the Vulnerability Management lifecycle across Amazon including intake assessment discovery and remediation.
VMR Campaign Management is seeking an experienced and innovative Security Engineer to join our team in Austin TX. VMR Campaign Management assesses triages and drives the remediation of security compliance and privacy risks across the Amazon ecosystem both strategically and at scale.
Key job responsibilities
- You will create and launch campaigns at scale while being responsible for maintaining a high security and quality bar.
- You will deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of security campaigns across Amazons infrastructure services and applications as well as reduce manual remediation and builder toil through automation and paved path solutions.
- You will work with security teams to identify preventative security measures to address current and future risk.
- You will design and implement automation tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont 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 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.
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.
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 and 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.
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP DNS and TCP/IP
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience in scripting programming and security code reviewing in a common programming language (non-internship)
- 5 years experience and deep knowledge of vulnerabilities exploits and vulnerability management systems. Experience building applications or systems on cloud-based services.
- Experience with AWS products and services
- 3 years of architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure AWS GCP OCI etc. experience
- 3 years experience troubleshooting networking operating systems applications or cloud services.
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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 TX Austin - 159300.00 - 202400.00 USD annually