Security Engineer II, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations

Embark on a Mission to Fortify Amazon's Defenses as a Security Engineer with the Vulnerability Management & Remediation Operations team! Amazon Security is seeking an experienced and innovative Security Engineer to join our Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMRO) team in Sydney, Australia. The VMRO team is responsible for discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem. Key job responsibilities - Analyse public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code. - Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications. - Investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon. - Support response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix their security issues in a timely manner. - Engineer high quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms. - Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities. - Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.

Basic qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent - Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP - 5 years security engineering experience in system, network, and/or application security and developing vulnerability assessment tests with Python or Java. - 5 years experience improving accuracy of vulnerability detection mechanisms across a diverse technical ecosystem.