Security Engineer II, Amazon Vulnerability Management - Container Domain

Amazon Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k)

Job summary

Amazon in Arlington, VA is seeking a Security Engineer II to join the AVM Container Domain, focusing on securing how Amazon builds and runs containers across ECS, EKS, and SageMaker. You will analyze vulnerabilities, triage findings, and drive remediation with partner teams.

You will contribute to scalable risk assessments, develop automation, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain container security across the AWS environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review (non-internship)
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks with CLI
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or 2+ years IT Security experience
• Knowledge of HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP
• Knowledge of security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques

Responsibilities

• Analyze vulnerability disclosures, focusing on container images, base layers, and orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS, SageMaker)
• Assess technical details and impact of container vulnerabilities across AWS infrastructure
• Investigate and triage findings, assess severity and scope of risk
• Support remediation efforts, partnering with builder teams to fix container security issues
• Design automation, tooling, and workflows to improve patch deployment and remediation

Skills

Scripting experience

Troubleshooting

Networking knowledge

Security code review

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Python

Java

C++

Job description

Security Engineer II, Amazon Vulnerability Management - Container Domain

Job ID: 10568811 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Embark on a mission to secure how Amazon builds and runs containers as a Security Engineer II with the AWS Vulnerability Management (AVM) Container Domain Team!
Seeking an experienced and innovative Security Engineer to join our Container Domain Team in Arlington, VA. Our team is responsible for assessing, triaging, and driving the remediation of container vulnerabilities across AWS's container ecosystem spanning Amazon ECS, EKS, and SageMaker. We partner with builder teams across AWS to get container fleets patched.

Key job responsibilities
Analyze public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code, with an emphasis on container images, base layers, and orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS, SageMaker).
Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of container vulnerabilities across AWS's infrastructure, services, and applications.
Investigate and triage container findings, identifying severity, exploitability, and the scope of potential impact, including contextual risk assessment to distinguish real risk from noise.
Support response and remediation efforts, partnering with builder teams to fix container security issues.
Engineer high quality, scalable risk-assessment mechanisms for container workloads.
Design and implement automation, tooling, and workflows to enhance patch deployment, remediation tracking, and our overall container operations capabilities.
Periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of container vulnerabilities.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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.

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.

Training & 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.

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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

- 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship) experience
- 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques

Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of scripting, programming, or security code review in a common language, such as Python, Java or C++ experience
- Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks
- Experience in scripting, programming, or security code reviewing in a common language, such as Python, Java, or C++
- Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of scripting, programming, or security code review in a common language, such as Python, Java or C++ experience
- Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks
- Experience in scripting, programming, or security code reviewing in a common language, such as Python, Java, or C++
- Experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, VA, Arlington - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually

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