Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London
9 months ago
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Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations

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Job Description

Embark on a mission to fortify Amazon's defenses as a Security Engineer with the Vulnerability Management & Remediation Operations 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 Responsibilities

  1. Analyze public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code.
  2. Understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.
  3. Investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and scope of potential impact.
  4. Support response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix security issues timely.
  5. Engineer high-quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms.
  6. Design and implement automation, tools, and workflows to enhance operational capabilities.
  7. Participate in a global team and periodic on-call responsibilities for continuous monitoring and remediation.
  8. Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, or similar languages and SQL.

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 languages.
  • 5 years of security engineering experience in system, network, and/or application security.
  • 5 years developing vulnerability assessment tests with Python or Java.
  • 5 years improving accuracy of vulnerability detection mechanisms across diverse ecosystems.
  • 3 years troubleshooting networking, operating systems, applications, or cloud services.
  • 3 years building cloud-based services.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AWS products and services.
  • Knowledge in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management, authentication, cryptography, system administration, or network security.

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