AWS Security is looking for a Senior Security Technical Program Manager to own security strategy and continuous engagement with AWS service teams. This role will understand the complex roles and responsibilities of everyone involved in operating AWS services and leverage their deep experience to define and drive strategic security outcomes with business leaders at the highest levels.
This role is the voice of security for the AWS Security Red Team. You will be responsible for longterm strategy as well as the realtime operational needs that ensure urgent tactical issues are resolved and that teams are taking steps to head off customer impacting risks and issues.
The AWS Security Red Team organization exists to improve the defensive capability of AWS and ensures that our systems and processes are secured against the latest threats. The AWS Security Red Team is responsible for conducting offensive campaigns emergent threat testing creating/maintaining automated threat emulation solutions and helping security and service teams add offensive insight to their development deployment monitoring and response processes. 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 crossteam efforts and defining wellconsidered objectives and metrics to guide decisionmaking and affect change. You will provide crystalclear 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 AWS.
A Senior 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 organization produce the best possible results for our customers.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
Key job responsibilities
Own your program. Build relationships to understand and guide the roadmap of all teams you support
Gather knowledge define projects and coordinate across multiple global partner teams
Identify and produce appropriate business metrics and continually assess them to improve over time
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
Prepare and present detailed written technical information for internal and external audiences
Demonstrate exceptional judgment integrity business acumen and communication skills
About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
Here at AWS we embrace our differences. We have ten employeeled affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.
Our team also puts a high value on worklife balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and wellbalanced lifeboth in and outside of work.
6 years of technical product or program management experience
4 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
4 years of experience in two or more of the following technical categories: Red Team operations Penetration testing or pentest management Bug bounty program management Security architecture and risk mitigation for enterprise networks or services Data analytics (business intelligence security metrics data pipeline scale and performance) Product/Service definition (requirements and use cases for internal/external customer solutions) SDLC (endtoend security management of a software lifecycle)
Experience with multiple programming languages (such as Java C Ruby Python Perl etc.
Familiarity with SQL Python QuickSight and/or Tableau
Experience managing external relationships
Experience communicating technical concepts to a nontechnical audience.
Experience interpreting and communicating analytics.
An understanding of security web services multitiered systems workflow modeling and enterprise application integration
Security architecture experience within a professional services firm or similar environment
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