Penetration Testing Manager, Amazon Stores Security

Amazon; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global e-commerce company is seeking a Penetration Testing Manager to lead a high-performing team. Responsibilities include managing security programs, driving strategic security initiatives, and ensuring the organization's security posture is robust. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in Information Security, coupled with strong leadership and communication skills. The role offers a flexible work culture that values work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible work hours

Training and career growth opportunities

Diversity and inclusion programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Information Security domains.
• Experience managing and developing teams.
• Ability to communicate across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a high performing Penetration Testing Team.
• Drive strategic initiatives by influencing leadership and stakeholders.
• Write and deliver high-quality documents for diverse audiences.

Skills

Team management

Security program management

Communication skills

Technical leadership

Penetration testing knowledge

Job description

Description

Amazon's Penetration Testing organization is growing and is seeking a Penetration Testing Manager to help keep Amazon secure for its customers. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of highly skilled penetration testers to assess Amazon's services, applications, and websites.

You will be in direct contact with teams in a variety of business verticals, giving you first hand knowledge about how Amazon is built and how it operates at a deep, technical level. Additionally, you will leverage the knowledge you gain about Amazon to find new ways to drive improvements to services, processes, and technologies throughout the company, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the continued safety and security of our customers.

You will be focused on using your leadership and technical skills to continually lead the direction and evolution of the team and orchestrate penetration testing engagements in order to maintain and raise Amazon's high security bar. You'll be driving strategic initiatives from your team by influencing key stakeholders and partnering with teams throughout Amazon to enable the implementation of innovative security solutions and controls to improve Amazon's security and software development posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a high performing technical Penetration Testing Team distributed across multiple locations
• Lead the strategic direction and evolution of the Penetration Testing Team, including setting goals and establishing priorities
• Drive strategic initiatives by influencing leadership, key stakeholders, and partnering with teams throughout Amazon
• Lead effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
• Lead improvements to internal program and process
• Write and deliver high-quality documents for technical and non-technical audiences

About the Team

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.

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.

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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in managing and developing teams
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team, or experience managing teams
• Experience driving security programs across large diverse organizations
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• 5+ years of experience in Information Security related domains, with knowledge of security fundamentals, application vulnerabilities, application attack vectors, penetration testing methodologies, and tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading across multiple locales
• Experience dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment
• Experience communicating technical details verbally and in writing
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.