Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security is looking for a passionate, innovative, results oriented Security Engineer for the AWS Security Vulnerability Management team. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is job zero. Our team is responsible for inventing new security services that enable and automate security solutions at AWS unprecedented scale. Our team offers the unique opportunity for engineers to collaborate with leading industry security experts while working across multiple AWS Service teams. We are data-driven, set big goals, and are always challenging ourselves and each other to identify better solutions.

As a Security Engineer in AWS Vulnerability Management, you will work on a team of security engineers, software engineers, and technical program managers who will define and build the mechanisms for tracking ingestion, assessment and notification of vulnerabilities across the AWS fleet. You will define and build best operational practices for tracking, monitoring and identifying patterns of issues across the fleet to enable enterprise wide solutions. You will collaborate with technical and business stakeholders across the organization, from engineers to executives, to operationalize these efforts. A successful candidate will be a deeply curious individual who brings technical and leadership expertise and has experience using cutting edge technology to develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges at incredible scale.

As a Security Engineer in AWS Vulnerability Management you will be responsible for a set of long term security outcomes. Your day to day job responsibilities will include:
Work with senior members of the team to identify where you will contribute to defined goals and priorities that enable your team to deliver against business objectives
Analyze vulnerability information to perform risk assessments and identify mitigating activities
Collaborate with teams across AWS to achieve security goals
Analyze data sets to identify proactive opportunities to improve security at AWS
Develop tooling to automate and refine vulnerability management processes
Partner with product teams across AWS to develop scalable solutions to security vulnerabilities

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

2+ years experience in vulnerability management
2+ years of scripting or programming experience in Ruby, Python, Shell/BASH scripting, Java, C/C++, C*, Perl, or other languages
Experience with developing software tooling to solve custom problems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

3-5 years experience in vulnerability management in a complex, global organization.
Experience working across teams to influence change.
Experience in generating automated metrics to measure IT security effectiveness and consistency.
Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills.
Results-oriented, high energy, self-motivated.
Information security professional certifications encouraged (SANS GIAC, CISSP etc.)
Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services
Excellent attention to detail
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Please email Fabian Valencia for more info - Favalenc@Amazon.com

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