1 day ago
Arlington, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$159k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code related to container images, base layers, and orchestration platforms.
- Assess the technical details, severity, exploitability, and potential impact of container vulnerabilities across AWS infrastructure, services, and applications.
- Investigate and triage container findings, distinguishing actionable risk from noise through contextual risk assessment.
- Partner with AWS builder teams to remediate container security issues and patch container fleets.
- Engineer scalable risk-assessment mechanisms for container workloads.
- Design and implement automation, tooling, and workflows for patch deployment, remediation tracking, and container operations.
- Participate in periodic on-call coverage for continuous monitoring and remediation of container vulnerabilities.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks with command-line tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or at least 2 years of IT Security experience.
- Knowledge of networking protocols including HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
- Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
- Preferred experience with Python, Java, or C++.
- Preferred experience performing security activities such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing.
- Preferred knowledge of penetration testing and exploit development or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of the company culture.
- The role is based in Arlington, Virginia, and includes periodic on-call responsibilities.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.