Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations, Defensive Security

Amazon Security is seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Security Engineer to join our Amazon Vulnerability Management Services (AVMS) team. The AVMS team is responsible for discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.

If you"re excited about the opportunity to make a significant impact on the security of one of the world"s largest and most complex technology ecosystems, we"d love to hear from you!

Key job responsibilities

• Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon"s infrastructure, services, and applications.
• Lead the detection and analysis of vulnerabilities through the development and optimization of vulnerability scanning, correlation, and prioritization capabilities.
• Thoroughly investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.
• Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
• Partner with software engineering and operations teams to identify and increase coverage and detection capability gaps across Amazon.
• Mentor and train junior security engineers, sharing your expertise in vulnerability management best practices.
• Collaborate with information security leadership to set the strategic direction for the AVMS program and report on key performance metrics.
• Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.

About the team

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 Amazon's 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it's 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.

Mentorship and Career growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.