Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Security Engineer in London, focusing on vulnerability management and remediation operations. This role involves analyzing vulnerabilities, supporting remediation efforts, and engineering scalable detection mechanisms. You will work with a global team to enhance security across a diverse technical ecosystem. If you have a passion for security engineering and a desire to protect critical infrastructure, this opportunity is perfect for you. Be part of a dynamic environment where your contributions will make a significant impact on safeguarding data and systems.

Qualifications

• 5 years of security engineering experience in system, network, and application security.
• Experience developing vulnerability assessment tests with Python or Java.

Responsibilities

• Analyze vulnerability disclosures and assess their impact on Amazon's infrastructure.
• Support remediation efforts and design automation tools to enhance operations.

Skills

Python

Ruby

Go

Swift

Java

.Net

C++

SQL

Networking Protocols

Vulnerability Assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS

Job description

Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations

Job ID: 2961789 | Amazon Data Services UK Limited

Embark on a Mission to Fortify Amazon's Defenses as a Security Engineer with the Vulnerability Management & Remediation Operations team!
Amazon Security is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMRO) 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 Job Responsibilities

1. Analyse public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code.
2. Deeply 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 the scope of potential impact to Amazon.
4. Support response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix their security issues in a timely manner.
5. Engineer high quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms.
6. Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
7. Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.
8. Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language and SQL.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
2. Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
3. Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language.
4. 5 years security engineering experience in system, network, and/or application security.
5. 5 years experience developing vulnerability assessment tests with Python or Java.
6. 5 years experience improving accuracy of vulnerability detection mechanisms across a diverse technical ecosystem.
7. 3 years experience troubleshooting networking, operating systems, applications, or cloud services.
8. 3 years experience building cloud-based services.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience with AWS products and services.
2. Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.

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