Sr Technical Program Manager, Leo Security, Leo Security
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Job Location:
Redmond, WA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve designed the system with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve a wide range of customers from individual households to schools hospitals businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. The Amazon Leo Security team owns the security of product and operations end-to-end. We provide the necessary infrastructure and mechanisms to ensure the security of our satellite constellation and to protect the integrity and confidentiality of our customer data. Our team drives the research & development deployment and operation of several mission-critical security systems and mechanisms. You will work in a start-up like environment backed by Amazons infrastructure to bootstrap security mechanisms and help instill the security culture in the organization.
Export Control Requirement
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder) or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Create optimize and support cross-functional working groups and projects fostering collaboration across departments to enhance Vulnerability Management SAST and DAST programs.
- Be proactive in removing roadblocks fostering innovation and managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment driving continuous improvement and efficiency.
- Manage tight deadlines with precision and drive results exhibiting exceptional attention to detail and ensuring the successful completion of projects and initiatives.
- Own the program lifecycle for large complex security initiatives spanning multiple teams and VP organizations including mission vision tenets and roadmap contributions.
- Partner with security engineers and senior technical leaders to perform program-level design reviews and risk assessments and ensure architectural choices appropriately balance short-term needs with long-term security posture.
- Develop and maintain program mechanisms including risk registers review processes and reporting structures to ensure security risks are tracked escalated and remediated in partnership with risk owners.
- Simplify and streamline cross-functional processes to increase selections velocity and reduce friction for solution teams.
- Collect analyze and synthesize data from a variety of sources to create compelling written and verbal communications for Director and VP-level audiences including Amazon 6-pagers and Monthly Program Reviews.
- Build consensus among discordant views escalate effectively and ensure business and technical stakeholder needs are aligned across the program.
A day in the life
In this role youll work with a team of engineers managers and TPMs. Youll help identify business security priorities mechanisms to address the identification of vulnerabilities hosts code and 3rd party software and will work with partners and builder teams to simplify risk mitigation. You will influence the security strategy of partner teams to optimize security outcomes for our customers. Youll participate in hiring development training of team members. Youll own a part of the team outcome and will be encouraged to grow your ownership and role.
About the team
A day in the life
In this role youll work with a team of engineers managers and TPMs. Youll help identify business security priorities mechanisms to address the priorities trends in the findings your team generates or processes and will work with partners to remove these risks at the source. You influence the security strategy of partner teams to optimize security outcomes for our customers. Youll participate in hiring development training of team members. Youll own a part of the team outcome and will be encouraged to grow your ownership and role.
About the team
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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont 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 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.
What Were Looking For
You thrive in ambiguity and create clarity for others. You have experience managing programs spanning distributed systems security infrastructure or compliance-driven initiatives. You understand security controls vulnerability management SAST and DAST scanning systems well enough to have informed technical conversations and spot opportunities early. You manage through influence not authority. You work across organizations with different priorities and build alignment. You communicate crisply to senior leadership distinguishing signal from noise. You build mechanisms that scale: dashboards status cadences escalation paths and dependency trackers that outlast any individual program review.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its 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
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
- 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- 5 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering a related field or equivalent experience
- 3 years of experience with teams that do Security Response Security Assessments Offensive Security Testing or Threat and Vulnerability Management.
- Deep understanding of vulnerability management security baseline controls threat detection and incident response
- Familiarity with cloud security tooling (AWS security services SIEM EDR) and ability to assess applicability to non-cloud environments
- Knowledge of security compliance frameworks and audit processes
- Background in satellite operations aerospace or highly regulated environments (ITAR/EAR)
- Experience building proof-of-concept services to validate requirements
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Export Control Requirement
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder) or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Create optimize and support cross-functional working groups and projects fostering collaboration across departments to enhance Vulnerability Management SAST and DAST programs.
- Be proactive in removing roadblocks fostering innovation and managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment driving continuous improvement and efficiency.
- Manage tight deadlines with precision and drive results exhibiting exceptional attention to detail and ensuring the successful completion of projects and initiatives.
- Own the program lifecycle for large complex security initiatives spanning multiple teams and VP organizations including mission vision tenets and roadmap contributions.
- Partner with security engineers and senior technical leaders to perform program-level design reviews and risk assessments and ensure architectural choices appropriately balance short-term needs with long-term security posture.
- Develop and maintain program mechanisms including risk registers review processes and reporting structures to ensure security risks are tracked escalated and remediated in partnership with risk owners.
- Simplify and streamline cross-functional processes to increase selections velocity and reduce friction for solution teams.
- Collect analyze and synthesize data from a variety of sources to create compelling written and verbal communications for Director and VP-level audiences including Amazon 6-pagers and Monthly Program Reviews.
- Build consensus among discordant views escalate effectively and ensure business and technical stakeholder needs are aligned across the program.
A day in the life
In this role youll work with a team of engineers managers and TPMs. Youll help identify business security priorities mechanisms to address the identification of vulnerabilities hosts code and 3rd party software and will work with partners and builder teams to simplify risk mitigation. You will influence the security strategy of partner teams to optimize security outcomes for our customers. Youll participate in hiring development training of team members. Youll own a part of the team outcome and will be encouraged to grow your ownership and role.
About the team
A day in the life
In this role youll work with a team of engineers managers and TPMs. Youll help identify business security priorities mechanisms to address the priorities trends in the findings your team generates or processes and will work with partners to remove these risks at the source. You influence the security strategy of partner teams to optimize security outcomes for our customers. Youll participate in hiring development training of team members. Youll own a part of the team outcome and will be encouraged to grow your ownership and role.
About the team
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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont 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 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.
What Were Looking For
You thrive in ambiguity and create clarity for others. You have experience managing programs spanning distributed systems security infrastructure or compliance-driven initiatives. You understand security controls vulnerability management SAST and DAST scanning systems well enough to have informed technical conversations and spot opportunities early. You manage through influence not authority. You work across organizations with different priorities and build alignment. You communicate crisply to senior leadership distinguishing signal from noise. You build mechanisms that scale: dashboards status cadences escalation paths and dependency trackers that outlast any individual program review.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its 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
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
- 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- 5 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering a related field or equivalent experience
- 3 years of experience with teams that do Security Response Security Assessments Offensive Security Testing or Threat and Vulnerability Management.
- Deep understanding of vulnerability management security baseline controls threat detection and incident response
- Familiarity with cloud security tooling (AWS security services SIEM EDR) and ability to assess applicability to non-cloud environments
- Knowledge of security compliance frameworks and audit processes
- Background in satellite operations aerospace or highly regulated environments (ITAR/EAR)
- Experience building proof-of-concept services to validate requirements
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Redmond - 148700.00 - 201200.00 USD annually
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