Strategic Cybersecurity Program Manager
Amazon Security is seeking a highly experienced and innovative Strategic Cybersecurity Program Manager to join our Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMRO) team in Sydney, Australia. The VMRO team is responsible for assessing, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will have solid technical expertise in security operations and program management to join us in building and maturing our VMR Operations programs. Your responsibilities include driving the strategic, technical, and engineering direction of VMR's Vulnerability, Campaign and Issue Operations Management Programs, which enables builders and drives remediation actions across Amazon.
You will leverage relationships with engineers across Stores Security, business teams, and leaders throughout Amazon to prioritise deliverables, escalate roadblocks, and improve operational processes. You will build trust with Principal Engineers and Principal TPMs and executive leaders by leveraging your technical expertise to understand technical challenges, design improved solutions, and hold a high program bar.
Finally, you will use your information security expertise to champion and drive risk-based decisions across complex, multi-disciplinary programs to ensure Amazon properly manages security risk.
Key responsibilities:
* Support vulnerability detection campaigns by working closely with Campaign Owners to launch and continuously improve the quality of campaigns across Amazon.
* Assess and negotiate with customers to drive down security risk by engaging with teams to remediate critical security vulnerabilities in their environments.
* Leverage your technical expertise to understand technical challenges, design improved solutions, and hold a high program bar.
* Manage the operational help of the VMRO team by building and reporting SLA and KPI metrics to leadership and identifying improvements, and building programs to deliver these improvements.
* Work with internal stakeholders to improve campaign health and work with customers to drive remediation of security vulnerabilities across Amazon.
* Work closely with security engineers to maintain operational stability and inform priorities for innovative development efforts to drive high impact improvements to operational processes across Vulnerability Operations, Campaigns and Issue Health Management.
This role also requires flexibility of schedule and the ability and willingness to work outside of normal daytime business hours.
Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity or related technical degree or equivalent; Masters degree; or 5+ years equivalent technology experience
* 6+ years of technical program management experience working directly with security, software engineering teams and senior leadership
* Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building knowledge and processes, defining operational KPI's/SLA's and reporting to senior leadership
* Experience deep diving complex datasets, SQL, and building dashboards with business intelligence tools such as Amazon QuickSight
* Experience in working with software development teams to build and improve security vulnerability tooling in a large organisation
Preferred qualifications:
* 3+ years of experience in fields such as Security Operations, technology audit, or security vulnerability lifecycle
* Experience building and operating Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, or other security programs with hundreds of stakeholders and executive leadership visibility
* High level communication and data presentation skills that allow you to clearly, compellingly, and effectively influence audiences internally and externally, across organisational boundaries
* Experience performing risk assessments of vulnerabilities and evaluating compensating and mitigating controls in large, complex infrastructures
* Experience working in a cross functional team across different global teams and timezones
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