Principal Security TPM: Lead Field Risk & Compliance

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Miami (FL); On-site; USD 177,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Miami seeks a Principal Technical Program Manager to help define a new security engineering team for AWS Global Sales from day one.

You will own the security and governance frameworks the field runs on, surface and reduce risk, and partner with AWS Security, Legal, and business leaders to stay secure while moving fast. This is a ground-floor, global remit role with travel up to 25%, offering opportunities to build programs, grow the reviewer community, and scale

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of security, compliance and risk management experience.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.

Responsibilities

• Own the field's security and governance frameworks (customer builds, prototyping, public content), building on the AWS Security standards and codifying them into the steering docs, skills, MCPs, and agents the field builds with.
• Grow the field's security reviewer community, recruiting, training, and accrediting reviewers and keeping their judgment calibrated as technology and threats evolve, so security judgment spreads and reviews stay consistent.
• Own field security training on the responsibilities and frameworks the field operates within, partnering with security engineers and AWS Security on content and Field Enablement on delivery.
• Measure AGS against AWS-wide security standards and run the business security review that gives leadership a regular, prioritized read on risk, partnering with leaders to close gaps and enabling leaders to run their own.
• Partner with the business through post-incident follow-through, helping it articulate what happened, representing it to AWS Security leadership, and supporting it in closing the action items it owns.
• Own the AGS field's security roadmap, balancing near-term wins against long-term shifts in how the field builds, so the security bar keeps pace.
• Own the governance mechanism for security exceptions and escalations, keeping decisions consistent and documented, and holding the line when stakeholders challenge the process.
• Some travel required (up to 25%)

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Roadmap strategy

Security risk management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Miami seeks a Principal Technical Program Manager to help define a new security engineering team for AWS Global Sales from day one.

You will own the security and governance frameworks the field runs on, surface and reduce risk, and partner with AWS Security, Legal, and business leaders to stay secure while moving fast. This is a ground-floor, global remit role with travel up to 25%, offering opportunities to build programs, grow the reviewer community, and scale