Senior Security Manager, Amazon Vulnerability Management

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 208,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN, is seeking a Senior Manager of Security Engineering to lead the Vulnerability Management Service (AVMS) at scale across AWS and Amazon retail.

You will build vision and processes to ensure vulnerabilities are mitigated, partner with software teams across multiple domains, and lead a high-impact security team focused on risk reduction, data-driven decisions, and protecting customers globally.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on security engineering experience.
• 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions.
• 10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

Responsibilities

• Remediation operations, process, and management of security findings produced by AVMS.
• Create vision, charters, mechanisms, processes, and solutions to ensure vulnerabilities are mitigated and remediated.
• Work cross-functionally across software teams to create security solutions.
• Lead an innovative team of security practitioners to mitigate risk in the Amazon environment.
• Analyze metrics and insights to guide daily execution and align goals with other security leaders.

Skills

Security engineering

Risk assessment

Team leadership

Communication to non-technical

Security decision enabling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Description

Amazon Security's Vulnerability Management Service (AVMS) manages the entire vulnerability management (VM) program across Amazon’s retail business special teams, and AWS. AVMS operates at an unprecedented asset scale, as well as diversity of business lines ranging from Cloud, Health Care, Payments, Devices, Fulfillment, and even drones!

Amazon Security's Vulnerability Management Service (AVMS) manages the entire vulnerability management (VM) program across Amazon’s retail business special teams, and AWS. AVMS operates at an unprecedented asset scale, as well as diversity of business lines ranging from Cloud, Health Care, Payments, Devices, Fulfillment, and even drones!

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 the remediation operations, process, and management of security findings produced by Amazon Vulnerability Management Service (AVMS) team.

You will create vision, charters, mechanisms, processes, and solutions that ensure 100% of vulnerabilities that could impact Amazon customer’s are mitigated and remediated. 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 practitioners to ensure security risk is mitigated and then ultimately removed from the Amazon environment.

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 scaling vulnerability management across differentiated technologies, businesses lines, and business objectives.

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
• Experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Experience with hands-on security engineering
• Experience in risk assessment and enabling organizations to make security decisions
• Experience in team management and building (including coaching and mentoring)

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, MN, Minneapolis - 208,300.00 - 281,800.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon Web Services, Inc.