What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Program Manager, AWS Application Security position at Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Description
Can you adapt to a fast-paced environment supporting projects across all parts of Amazon Web Services rapid evolving businesses? AWS Security manages risks of all the global external party engagements for AWS. AWS Security needs Security Technical Program Managers who can manage risk and drive business success. Come join a world-class security organization that is rapidly evolving the cloud services world.
AWS Security is working on innovative solutions in partnership with vendors that involve a wide variety of technologies including cloud services, identity and access management, machine learning, mobile devices, and custom hardware — all operating at massive scale.
AWS is seeking an independent, passionate, and deeply experienced professional to help lead the overall security direction of global vendor engagements. This role will provide thought leadership, portfolio management, and technical guidance for the security direction of our external party risk management program. This guidance will involve areas of customer support, access management, secure network configurations, and the security around tools used to support both operations and management of AWS engagements with technology vendors. The ideal candidate should be a technically experienced and innovative security professional who is able to communicate these across technical teams and at executive levels. The candidate should have the ability to handle a wide range of security requirements and can translate those requirements into operational processes and procedures for cloud computing.
The position will be responsible for coordinating the security reviews of external party engagements to highlight areas of interest, flag opportunities for stronger security practices, and facilitating discussions with our leadership to address our security direction. If you enjoy working in an environment with rapidly changing threat scenarios in information security, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.
You will be expected to be strong in multiple domains and provide significant contributions to the AWS Security team and to multiple client groups throughout Amazon Web Services. You will develop elegant solutions to complex business problems and apply appropriate technologies while following security engineering best practices. You will mentor junior security professionals and be a security thought leader for the organization. Similarly, our highly collaborative team is committed to each team member’s growth as our business grows. You will have the opportunity to learn from, and be mentored by, those who are building and securing AWS's innovative services.
You will need a combination of technical and communication skills, as well as the ability to both lead projects, generate security metrics, and perform risk reviews of project proposals. This role will provide career growth opportunities as the technical program managers to gain new security skills in the course of your duties and working with fellow world-class technologists.
Key job responsibilities
The daily work of a Senior TPM on this team will perform deep dive technical analysis on our existing review processes. You will evaluate the state of these processes and use Generative AI to reduce the human effort of these processes. You will recommend best approaches, evaluate existing tools, and identify new ones.
Additionally a TPM relentlessly finds opportunities to scale their knowledge and capabilities across the team through developing runbooks, while also providing visibility on program health to leadership through BI reporting.
About The Team
We are a team of highly technical security practitioners, most with backgrounds in pen testing, incident response, security audit, and other hands-on technical experience. We leverage our collective knowledge to uphold the Amazon Security Bar by helping our customers properly think through their service secure system design, data sharing mechanisms, and long term service ownership strategies.
We work in a fast paced environment where all members help each other and jump in when needed, regardless of the assigned business vertical.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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 and 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.
Basic Qualifications
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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2968354
Can you adapt to a fast-paced environment supporting projects across all parts of Amazon Web Services rapid evolving businesses? AWS Security manages risks of all the global external party engagements for AWS. AWS Security needs Security Technical Program Managers who can manage risk and drive business success. Come join a world-class security organization that is rapidly evolving the cloud services world.
AWS Security is working on innovative solutions in partnership with vendors that involve a wide variety of technologies including cloud services, identity and access management, machine learning, mobile devices, and custom hardware — all operating at massive scale.
AWS is seeking an independent, passionate, and deeply experienced professional to help lead the overall security direction of global vendor engagements. This role will provide thought leadership, portfolio management, and technical guidance for the security direction of our external party risk management program. This guidance will involve areas of customer support, access management, secure network configurations, and the security around tools used to support both operations and management of AWS engagements with technology vendors. The ideal candidate should be a technically experienced and innovative security professional who is able to communicate these across technical teams and at executive levels. The candidate should have the ability to handle a wide range of security requirements and can translate those requirements into operational processes and procedures for cloud computing.
The position will be responsible for coordinating the security reviews of external party engagements to highlight areas of interest, flag opportunities for stronger security practices, and facilitating discussions with our leadership to address our security direction. If you enjoy working in an environment with rapidly changing threat scenarios in information security, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.
You will be expected to be strong in multiple domains and provide significant contributions to the AWS Security team and to multiple client groups throughout Amazon Web Services. You will develop elegant solutions to complex business problems and apply appropriate technologies while following security engineering best practices. You will mentor junior security professionals and be a security thought leader for the organization. Similarly, our highly collaborative team is committed to each team member’s growth as our business grows. You will have the opportunity to learn from, and be mentored by, those who are building and securing AWS's innovative services.
You will need a combination of technical and communication skills, as well as the ability to both lead projects, generate security metrics, and perform risk reviews of project proposals. This role will provide career growth opportunities as the technical program managers to gain new security skills in the course of your duties and working with fellow world-class technologists.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead programs that embed AI into all aspects of the AppSec Review process
- Manage security reviews and processes to qualify AWS vendors worldwide and validate the effectiveness of durable technical security controls specific to the use case
- Identify technical risks and work with Security Engineers to implement security programs and processes to offer mitigations
- Drive organization-wide security initiatives, get buy in from stakeholders, and deliver quantifiable results
- Develop, maintain and prepare metric reports for senior management on the state of the security program
The daily work of a Senior TPM on this team will perform deep dive technical analysis on our existing review processes. You will evaluate the state of these processes and use Generative AI to reduce the human effort of these processes. You will recommend best approaches, evaluate existing tools, and identify new ones.
Additionally a TPM relentlessly finds opportunities to scale their knowledge and capabilities across the team through developing runbooks, while also providing visibility on program health to leadership through BI reporting.
About The Team
We are a team of highly technical security practitioners, most with backgrounds in pen testing, incident response, security audit, and other hands-on technical experience. We leverage our collective knowledge to uphold the Amazon Security Bar by helping our customers properly think through their service secure system design, data sharing mechanisms, and long term service ownership strategies.
We work in a fast paced environment where all members help each other and jump in when needed, regardless of the assigned business vertical.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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 and 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.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of technical product or program management experience
- 5 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience in 2 or more of the following Security domains; Risk Management, Asset Security, Security Architecture and Engineering, Communication and Network Security, Identity and Access Management, Security Assessment and Testing, Security Operations, and Software Development Security
- 5 years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- 3 years of software development experience
- Experience working with Generative AI tools that accelerate the development process. e.g. Cursor, Windsurf, etc
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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2968354
Salary : $133,900 - $231,400
