Amazon Security Engineer AWS Vulnerability Management 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

878120529

As a security engineer, you will help define and execute short-term and long-term strategy for vulnerability remediation. You're well-known for your excellent prioritization skills, as well as your ability to communicate at all levels of an organization (technical and non-technical). The successful candidate must be autonomous, comfortable operating in highly ambiguous situations, and relish the idea of solving security problems at scale.The successful candidate is one who loves working directly with software developers to understand their needs, and design security systems and solutions that enable developers to operate more effectively, securely and safely. You will have the opportunity to engage with systems that are at the cutting edge of technology. You will work directly with AWS service teams, partner security teams, and administrative teams to identify opportunities to improve our security posture. You will build tooling, drive process improvements, and work with service owners and cutting-edge technology to develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.The role can be located in Seattle, WAKey job responsibilities
Research and interpret vulnerability disclosures and intelligence
Own and coordinate vulnerability assessment and triage activities with subject-matter experts across AWS
Own workstreams during large-scale remediation or triage campaigns.
Author risk assessment statements, remediation guidance, and status reportsDevelop tooling to automate and refine vulnerability management processes
Periodic on-call responsibilities.
A day in the life
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- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or related degree; or 4+ years equivalent technology experience
- 3 years experience in system, network, and/or application security
- 3 years experience in threat modeling and interpreting vulnerability disclosures
- 2 years experience building automated tools in C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, PowerShell, or Ruby
- Strong understanding of Windows and Linux internals and system design.

- 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++