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Senior Technical Program Manager, AWS Security Assurance

Amazon

Amazon

IT, Operations
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Aug 16, 2024

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. At AWS' scale, we invent new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our security conscious customers. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. The Security Assurance Engineering team’s mission is to build and enhance mechanisms to continuously demonstrate that AWS meets and exceeds the high security and compliance bar expected by our customers. We achieve this by pro-active engagement of service/control owners to identify, monitor and drive remediation of risks, enabling AWS to meet various security and compliance requirements. The team also builds tools and services that enable us to scale, create efficiencies for our teams and transparency for our customers.
We are looking for a talented Technical Program Manager to help manage an internal change and account management program to ensure the effective evaluation and oversight of our IT systems and processes. A successful candidate will have a strong security and compliance background. They will have an ability to manage aspects of a major program requiring reporting to auditors/regulators while remediating findings and issues discovered across AWS engineering teams. They will have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.


Key job responsibilities
The Technical Program Manager will be responsible for the following:
- Draft narratives providing leadership awareness of upcoming issues and recommended solutions
- Track projects including resources, priorities, milestones, dependencies, and status.
- Run operational campaigns to ensure that AWS stays compliant with relevant regulations
- Walkthrough operations and control status to external auditors
- Report status and metrics to Security Assurance Leadership
- Vet new control requirements from audit liaisons
- Coordinate with engineering teams to migrate key metadata for ingestion into GRC tooling
- Identify areas of improvements to reduce touchpoints for engineering teams and reduce risk of non-compliance




About the team
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.