Amazon

DESCRIPTION

AWS Compliance and Security Assurance is hiring for an experienced, self-motivated Program Manager with a background in program and risk management to join our Security, Risk and Compliance (SRC) team.

In this role, you will help manage our programs aimed at identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing security risks identified through a variety of sources across AWS. You will be responsible for managing program reporting obligations and will design, develop, and implement innovative approaches that enable us to report at scale. Through this work, you will help drive leadership prioritization and reduce security and compliance risk.

Our mission is to reinvent AWS's approach to managing operational risks by simplifying compliance and assurance, making security transparent for builders through a 'secure, therefore compliant' model, while raising the security and resilience bar. Our guidance and leadership equip our partners to maintain high security standards. Our programs stretch across all of AWS, giving you the opportunity to interact with product teams, industry specialists, security partners, and organization leaders.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead the identification, evaluation, and implement of enhanced reporting mechanisms using data as your guide.
• Continuously prioritize risk for service teams, security teams, and executive leadership.
• Collaborate with business/service teams to understand and confirm security assessment scope and controls design.
• Responsible for building and influencing security as a core competency with internal teams/partners/vendor
• Provide guidance and recommendations on operational risk requirements to development and operations teams, serving as a subject matter expert for risk governance.

A day in the life

You will be working with members across AWS to understand how we can better automate program reporting.

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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PMP or similar project management certification
• Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Knows how to collect data (e.g., from log files, data stores, SQL, potentially via API, etc.)

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.