Amazon
Security Engineer II, Amazon Vulnerability Management - Container Domain
$159K–$202K
Arlington, VA · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years in each of the two specified non-internship experience areas; alternatively, 2+ years of IT Security experience may satisfy the degree qualification.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
About the job
Assesses, prioritizes, and drives remediation of container vulnerabilities across AWS services and infrastructure, while building scalable risk-assessment and remediation automation.
What you'll do
- Analyze and triage container vulnerability disclosures and findings, assessing severity, exploitability, and potential impact.
- Partner with builder teams to remediate container security issues and support patch deployment.
- Build scalable risk-assessment mechanisms, automation, tooling, and workflows; participate in periodic on-call coverage.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command line tools.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP, and of security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
Nice to have
- Experience with security activities across phases of the software development lifecycle, such as threat modeling, secure code review, or security testing.
- Knowledge of system vulnerabilities and remediation, including penetration testing and exploit development or equivalent.
Pay
159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon ECS, EKS, SageMaker, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, Python, Java
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