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AVMS’s mission is to be Earth’s best VM team, keeping customers safe and enabling software teams to build cool new innovations securely. We are looking for a Senior Manager of Security Engineering to take on this mission and our scale to make a profound impact across Amazon and its external customers.
Are you interested in building and leading a focused top-notch security team responsible for securing
assets from IoT to Drones? Do you get excited about the challenge of harmonizing differentiated security objectives into common solutions and processes? Do you like to analyze, play with data, and innovate with AI? Are you excited about getting into deep details of how software, hardware, and devices work as well as how vulnerabilities impact them? If so, this role is for you! This role requires understanding how software is built, businesses operate, to scale processes, assess risk, and make deep data driven decisions to manage vulnerabilities. Further, this role requires an innovator that wants to change the status quo to improve outcomes for customers.
Key job responsibilities
As the Senior Security Manager in AVMS organization you will be responsible for managing the detection and mitigation framework of the Amazon vulnerability management system.
You will create vision, charters, mechanisms, processes, and solutions that ensure 100% of vulnerabilities that could impact Amazon customer’s are detected and resolved. You will work cross functionally across software teams you own and others to create security solutions for Amazon. You will work within and across multiple security organizations to drive outcomes. You will have an infectious desire for securing customers, and analyzing through data which actions need to be taken every day.
You will lead an innovative team of security and software practitioners to create our new framework to detecting, mitigating, and remediating vulnerabilities across Amazon's footprint.
A day in the life
Your work will be dynamic and impactful. You will start your day with metrics and insights that lead the direction of your teams daily execution. You’ll attend cross functional meetings and support sessions designed to resolve and prevent vulnerabilities from taking hold in the Amazon environment. Further, you’ll spend a portion of your time sitting with other peer security leaders to understand how you can shift your organization to help them achieve their goals of securing the latest and greatest Amazon products. Should it be required, if danger comes knocking, you will be there to have your teams jump in to protect our customers.
The majority of your creative time will be focused on creating multi-vulnerability detections, doing vulnerability analysis, and ensuring the most important risk is being managed and remediated every day.
About the team
The AVMS organization is an international team with sites covering Seattle, Austin, Sydney, New York, Arlington, and London. The team is a mix of security engineers, software engineers, and data roles chartered together to tackle the problem of high scale vulnerability management.
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. Basic Qualifications: - 10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience
- 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience
- 10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring) experience
- 10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field Preferred Qualifications: - Knowledge of information security risk-based prioritization
- Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services
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 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.
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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, TX, Austin - 208,300.00 - 281,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 208,300.00 - 281,800.00 USD annually
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