The Amazon Security Testing Team is looking for a Security Technical Program Manager to own security strategy and continuous engagement with Amazon service teams. This role will understand the complex roles and responsibilities of everyone involved in operating Amazon services, and leverage their deep experience to define and drive strategic security outcomes with business leaders at the highest levels.
Amazon is growing at an incredible pace and conducts business around the world. This kind of growth is only possible because of the efforts supported by countless engineering teams who put the security of our customers first every day. This role is the voice of security for Amazon and you will be responsible for long-term strategy as well as the real-time operational needs that ensure urgent tactical issues are resolved and that teams are taking steps to head off customer impacting risks and issues.
The Amazon Security Testing organization exists to improve the defensive capability of Amazon and ensures that our systems and processes are secured against the latest threats. If you are a strong communicator with deep security experience, we look forward to talking to you! To be successful you must be comfortable individually driving cross-team efforts, and defining well-considered objectives and metrics to guide decision-making and affect change. You will provide crystal-clear vision and direction for diverse engineering and business leaders, and connect experts from all disciplines and locations to develop solutions that would otherwise not be feasible. You will develop and manage programs and processes that enable security testing to be done at scale for Amazon.
A Security Technical Program Manager is expected to understand the systems in their program space, the limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind architectural decisions. They are expected to seek out and clearly communicate relevant data to support complex business decisions, and drive the right recommendations in a compelling and effective way. They create plans that have objective, measurable success criteria and clearly communicate progress and outcomes. They anticipate the gaps between teams, processes, and system architectures to help their organisation produce the best possible results for our customers.
Key job responsibilities
- Own your program. Build relationships to understand and guide the roadmap of all teams you support.
- Prepare and present detailed, written information for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Identify and produce appropriate business metrics, and continually assess them to improve over time.
- Independently gather information from subject matter experts to develop, organise, and write procedure manuals, technical specifications, and process documentation.
- Obtain a deep understanding of products and services to translate complex product information into simple, polished, and engaging content.
- Gather knowledge, define projects, and coordinate execution across multiple global partner teams.
- Develop comprehensive documentation and after action reports that meet organisational standards.
- Write user-friendly content that meets the needs of the target audience, turning insights language that sets our users up for success.
- Evaluate current content and develop innovative approaches for improvement.
- Apply security expertise in technical discussions, keeping all stakeholders productively engaged.
- Directly represent our organization to business leaders and technical staff at all levels of the company.
- Demonstrate exceptional judgment, integrity, business acumen, and communication skills.
About the team
Our team understands the inter-connectedness of Amazon systems, identifies new bug classes, delivers world-class testing, and consistently solves the root cause of security problems at Amazon scale.
* We raise the security bar.
* We take advantage of our unique perspective.
* We deliver clear and consistent communications.
* We innovate through tooling.
* We maximize risk reduction.
* We are agile.
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Mentorship & 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience working directly with engineering teams
- Experience with roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
- Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
- Experience in technical product or program management- Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
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