1 day ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$75k - $131k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive security findings, research mitigations, and analyze vulnerability-related information to remediate root causes.
- Manage high-security events, communicate risks to AWS stakeholders, and escalate issues to drive mitigation.
- Assess security risks, create solutions to security issues, and improve related technology or processes.
- Produce progress reports, briefs, and white papers concerning security issues and AWS data center operations.
- Coordinate with Amazon security and service teams and bring stakeholders together to address findings and risks.
- Translate security mitigation plans into actionable items for technical teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
- Manage email, phone, chat, and trouble-ticket communications while providing technical customer support.
- Troubleshoot Windows and Linux operating systems, applications, and security issues.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software development or technical support experience.
- Experience scripting in modern programming languages.
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.
- Experience working nights, weekends, and extra hours as needed, including scheduled on-call coverage.
- Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development preferred.
- Experience troubleshooting and maintaining hardware and software RAID preferred.
- Experience with REST web services, XML, and JSON preferred.
Benefits
- The role requires 24/7/365 shift coverage, including days, nights, weekends, holidays, and overnight shifts.
- Amazon offers health, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health, medical advice, flexible spending, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The team provides knowledge-sharing, training, and career-advancement resources.
- Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of Amazon's work-life balance culture.
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.