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.
At Amazon youll be working with the best minds in technology and security. Learn and be curious here and accelerate your career growth. You can take pride in knowing that your work is meaningful having a positive impact on others and making the world a better place.
We are looking for an experienced security leader to join the Application Security team. As a security leader you will own building and managing a team of security engineers fostering a strong team culture. You should know how to prioritize communicate clearly and compellingly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong team. Passion and discipline around cloud computing is critical as is a high level of ownership and accountability.
As a manager on our team you will recruit and lead a team of topnotch application security engineers to solve interesting security challenges that arise when Amazon invents new technologies. Youll help them develop their skills and their careers as you tackle those challenges and contribute to Amazons overall security and privacy strategy.
Key job responsibilities
Lead manage and develop a team of Security Engineers and Technical Program Managers responsible for Application Security (AppSec) of Amazon services.
Lead the strategic direction and evolution of the Application Security review team/s including setting goals and establishing priorities.
Set the direction for the team by driving strategic initiatives influencing leadership key stakeholders and partnering with teams throughout Amazon.
Develop a healthy and collaborative culture and enable the team to deliver results.
Lead effective teamwork communication collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
Lead improvements to internal program and process.
Write and deliver highquality documents for technical and nontechnical audiences.
Drive the adoption of security processes automation and tooling to improve operational efficiency.
About the team
About Amazon Security
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.
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 knowledgesharing training and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value worklife 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 theres nothing we cant achieve.
Extensive experience leading managing & developing high performance teams
Extensive progressive experience within a software security team or similar operating environment
BA/BS in computer science information security related studies or equivalent work experience
Strong technical understanding of the OWASP Top 10
Experience reading and writing code in at least one programming language including Java Kotlin Objective C or Swift
Experience in one or more of the following areas: application security application development or penetration testing
Excellent written communication skills with the ability to translate technically complex issues into simple easytounderstand concepts
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