Security Engineering Manager (Pentest), Amazon Stores Security

Amazon Inc.; Texas; On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Stores Security is seeking a Security Engineering Manager (Pentest) to lead a high-caliber penetration testing team and to drive compliance-driven assessments across Amazon services, apps, and websites. You will shape strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with business teams to strengthen security controls while maintaining customer trust.

This role focuses on risk-based and compliance-driven testing, development of automation, and close collaboration with stakeholders to elevate

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security management experience.
• 5+ years in Information Security domains with knowledge of vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and testing methodologies.
• 3+ years driving Information Security initiatives across large organizations.
• 3+ years communicating with senior leadership and diverse partners.
• Experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a high performing Penetration Testing Team across multiple locations.
• Set goals and priorities for the Compliance Penetration Testing function.
• Plan and execute compliance-driven penetration testing to regulatory standards.
• Drive automation and tooling to scale testing across Amazon's services.
• Influence leadership and partner with teams to implement security solutions and controls.
• Lead cross-group collaboration and clear communication on security initiatives.
• Produce high-quality documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Security management

Information Security

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Automation initiatives

Job description

Security Engineering Manager (Pentest), Amazon Stores Security

ID lavoro: 10471422 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon's Store Security 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, with a focus on compliance-driven penetration testing to ensure adherence to regulatory frameworks and industry security standards. This role will provide you with challenging leadership and technical opportunities, and if hacking Amazon sounds exciting to you, will also be a lot of fun.

You will be in direct contact with teams across a variety of business verticals, giving you firsthand 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, including ensuring compliance obligations are met through rigorous security testing, 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, orchestrating both risk-based and compliance-driven penetration testing engagements to maintain and raise Amazon's high security bar. You will also drive the development of automation and tooling to scale the team's impact across Amazon's growing portfolio of services. Additionally, you'll drive strategic initiatives by influencing key stakeholder and partnering with teams throughout Amazon to enable the implementation of innovative security solutions and controls that improve Amazon's security posture while satisfying regulatory and compliance requirements. You'll be backed up by a team of highly skilled security engineers focused on attacking Amazon from a variety of perspectives, all working with a singular focus on maintaining our customers' trust. You must also demonstrate resilience and navigate ambiguous situations with composure and tact. Above all else, a strong sense of customer obsession is necessary to focus on the ultimate goal of keeping Amazon and its customers secure.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a high performing technical Penetration Testing Team distributed across multiple locations
• Lead the strategic direction and evolution of the Compliance Penetration Testing function, including setting goals and establishing priorities
• Plan and execute compliance-driven penetration testing engagements to ensure adherence to regulatory frameworks and industry security standards
• Drive the development of automation and tooling to scale penetration testing across Amazon's growing portfolio of services
• 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

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security management experience
• 5+ years of experience in Information Security related domains, with knowledge of security fundamentals, application vulnerabilities, application attack vectors, penetration testing methodologies, and tools
• 3+ years of experience driving Information Security initiatives across large diverse organizations
• 3+ years of experience communicating with a wide range of technical & non-technical partners and senior leadership
• Experience in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
• Knowledge of network, system, and web application attacks and mitigations
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks
• Experience driving large scale automation initiatives
• Experience gathering and reporting metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency
• Experience with cloud service providers and their offerings, preferably AWS, and its various technologies and services
• Knowledge of system or security design approaches with experience driving engineering and architectures to deliver results

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