Amazon Security Engineer AWS 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

302106479

As a security engineer, you will focus on host operating systems (OS) patching and enable software builders to improve their service's security posture. You will define and execute both short-term and long-term strategies for vulnerability remediation, and drive remediation activities across AWS’s vast scale. You'll work closely with the builders to gain deep insights into their operational constraints, architectural consideration and compensating control and partner with senior security engineers to review, refine and optimize remediation plans.Your impact will be critical in helping AWS maintain top-tier security by balancing risk and service delivery. You'll focus on identifying security trends, enhancing security visibility, and recommending improvements to our security posture.Key job responsibilities
- Developing tooling to automate and refine vulnerability management processes
- Identifying security risks through data analytics.
- Identifying and owning projects that continuously improve proactive security across AWS
- Periodic on-call responsibilities
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- 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.

- 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++