Security Engineer II, Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations
Amazon· Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
Hybrid (Sydney)Full-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Security Engineer role focused on vulnerability management and remediation operations (VMRO) for Amazon. Responsible for discovering, assessing, triaging, detecting, and driving remediation of vulnerabilities across Amazon’s ecosystem, with automation and on-call responsibilities in Sydney, Australia.
Responsibilities
- Analyse public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code.
- Deeply understand and assess the technical details and potential impact of vulnerabilities across Amazon's infrastructure, services, and applications.
- Investigate and triage vulnerabilities, identifying severity and the scope of potential impact to Amazon.
- Support response and remediation efforts, assisting builder teams to fix their security issues in a timely manner.
- Engineer high quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms.
- Design and implement automation, tools and workflows to enhance our operations capabilities.
- Be part of a global team and participate in periodic on-call responsibilities to ensure the continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
- 5+ years of any combination of: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience
- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
Skills
Required:Vulnerability assessmentAutomation and tooling
Nice to have:Programming
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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