Security Engineer II, Amazon Vulnerability Management - Container Domain
Amazon · Arlington, Virginia, USA ·
- Category
- Security
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.
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.