Job summary
Help us protect not only the Amazon Web Services cloud computing environment but all of our customers as well! Since 2006, our great team at Amazon has been enabling our customers to bring great ideas to life in ways that aren’t possible in traditional IT environments. With Amazon you can flexibly harness compute, storage, security, and other services from across the globe as your business demands them.

Amazon Security is on the cutting edge of many security issues for a wide variety of platforms and technologies including cloud services, Internet of things (IoT), identity and access management, mobile devices, virtualization and custom hardware, all operating at massive scale. Similarly, our highly collaborative team is committed to each team member’s growth as our business grows.

We are looking for a Penetration Testing Manager to lead our penetration testing team and help validate that our services, applications, and websites are secured against the latest threats. You will be responsible for managing a team of security engineers and third party vendors conducting penetration tests, evolving the security assurance process, manage third party vendors, and creating metrics to demonstrate your team’s performance. You will help set the direction for a team of security professionals that is responsible for all Amazon products and services. This role combines long term strategic planning to raise the bar on security across the enterprise with the excitement and challenge of quickly reacting to new threat scenarios.

As a security engineering manager at Amazon, you will be expected to speak authoritatively on behalf of your team and your technical knowledge should demonstrate both depth and breadth. You will be responsible for your team’s organizational structure and how that team works within the context of the larger Amazon Security team. Leveraging the strengths of individual team members, delegating tasks appropriately and managing delivery of long term projects will all be critical tasks for this role. A Technical Manager III has deep knowledge in their domain and is a sought after thought leader across the organization. They have both management and technical expertise and actively participate in the organization’s planning processes.


Managers in this role must define metrics to quickly and accurately present the team’s performance and variance against its goals. They must also participate in and/or coordinate segments of cross-Amazon initiatives, communicating status and results effectively across the division. A Technical Manager III is expected to seek out stretch assignments for your current team and foster their professional career development.

Responsibilities:
· Team management, growth, and organization
· Professional development of team members
· Project management
· Metrics and projections
· Driving security initiatives
· Recruiting
· Process Improvement


Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.


Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Please reach out to Recruiter, Nikki Pahliney (pahlin@amazon.com) for more information

Key job responsibilities
· Lead a team of skilled security engineers
· Drive organisational change
· Influence service team security
· Deliver results through metrics
· Ensure your security engineers' careers are on track
· Ensure the promise we make to our customers is met
· Define your teams vision and core tenets

A day in the life
Your stakeholders are:
· service teams delivering AWS products to our customers,
· peer engineering teams delivering application security,
· recruitment as you grow your team, and
· development teams.
Your customers are the service teams delivering new features and products to our end customer.

You will be helping the service teams own their own security by driving engineering and automation efforts from the application security team to the service teams.

About the team
The Security team is driven to not just find problems, but to fix problems. We are curious, engaged, and creative. We are looking for builders and breakers to help us help our services.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience
· Minimum of 5 years of experience directly managing a team of at least five engineers
· Advanced knowledge and understanding of security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, and application security

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience driving large, cross-organization initiatives
· Experience managing communication with geographically distributed teams
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially experience with executive-level communications
· Skilled at explaining complex technical issues in terms understandable by the business
· Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
· Ability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge (avoid “analysis paralysis”)
· Experience with multiple programming languages (such as, Java, C++, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc.)
· Experience with vulnerability risk and impact assessment
· Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills
· Experience providing training and mentorship

All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right to work in the UK, and screening check. This will include previous employment verification, qualification verification (if relevant) and a relevant check.



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. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right to work in the UK, and successful background screening check. This will include previous employment verification, qualification verification (if relevant) and a relevant criminal check.