Amazon develops products and services that transform the way customers live. Across teams and geographies we strive to delight customers and earn their trust. Members of the Stores Security team are guardians of that trust. From drones to grocery stores and everything in between our mission is to assess risk classify data and systems detect potential intrusion and respond quickly to security events across Amazons critical business functions including Retail Customer Service Worldwide Operations Consumer Payments Physical Stores and Healthcare. Within Stores Security the Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMR Operations) organization is responsible for all aspects of the Vulnerability Management lifecycle across Amazon including intake assessment discovery and remediation.
The VMR Operations organization is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager with deep technical expertise in security operations and program management to join us in building and maturing our VMR Operations programs. In this role you will be responsible for driving the strategic technical and engineering direction of VMRs Campaign and Issue Management Programs which enables builders and drives remediation actions across Amazon. You will leverage relationships with engineers across Stores Security business teams and leaders throughout Amazon prioritize deliverables escalate roadblocks and improve organizational processes. You will build trust with Principal Engineers and executive leaders by leveraging your technical expertise to understand technical challenges design improved solutions and hold a high program bar. Finally you will use your information security expertise to champion and drive risk-based decisions across complex multi-disciplinary programs to ensure Amazon properly manages security risk.
Key job responsibilities
- You will be responsible for driving the strategic technical and engineering direction across Host Container VMR Operations and partner team operations as part of vulnerability management.
- You will leverage relationships with engineers across Stores Security business teams and leaders throughout Amazon prioritize deliverables escalate roadblocks and improve organizational processes.
- You will build trust with Principal Engineers and executive leaders by leveraging your technical expertise to understand technical challenges design improved solutions and hold a high program bar.
- You will use your information security expertise to champion and drive risk-based decisions across complex multi-disciplinary programs to ensure Amazon properly manages security risk.
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About Amazon Security
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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 Amazons 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.
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- 7 years of technical product or program management experience
- 10 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5 years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 8 years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience building and operating Vulnerability Management Threat Intelligence Incident Response or other security programs with hundreds of stakeholders and executive leadership visibility
- Experience performing risk assessments of vulnerabilities and evaluating compensating and mitigating controls in large complex infrastructures
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.