The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Operations team is looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) who has a strong passion for data analytics and security business process improvement/automation. Our team works with infrastructure and service teams in AWS to manage AWS facilities and operations.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.

Key job responsibilities
As a TPM, you will:
• Identify and drive technical and business projects to improve secure operations of Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) regions, whether through automation or education;
• Develop and manage project schedules, identify risks and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders, define problem solving and risk mitigation strategies, and facilitate conflict resolution through the full project cycle;
• Help shape the vision for how performance and risk management will improve security operations at AWS;
• Drive engagement with AWS service teams and other security teams. Coordinate with internal customers to ensure parity in AWS security operations across regions;
• Drive investigations into security business processes and identify opportunities for further automation to eliminate future issues;
• Resolve ambiguities and align team plans to minimize technical risk and maximize odds of project success;
• Track and report the team's progress using metrics that capture impact and value.

The ideal candidate will have a background working in, or in support of, security operations (OPSEC, PERSEC, INFOSEC), enterprise IT infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Candidates should be able to demonstrate a proven track record of project completion that is on time and within budget. It is essential that the TPM can work at all levels in the organization to establish working partnerships and earn the intellectual respect of engineers, as well as run extremely effective projects on compressed and timelines while dealing with ambiguity with grace and maturity.

A day in the life
A day in the life of a Security TPM includes such activities as:

• Stakeholder engagement to develop a problem statement and vision
• Using your subject matter expertise to transform the problem statement into an actionable project and prioritized deliverables
• Work with engineering teams and other stakeholders to create an execution process and facilitate collective understanding and agreement on work activities
• Maintain accountability to program success, status information, visibility, and escalation / risk management

About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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 mentor ship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded Evaluator and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at AWS, 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 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Do you thrive on delivering complex software and networking projects across multiple sites and regions? Do you enjoy driving customer’s business requirements into reality, and meeting their needs? In Direct Connect, we’re working on the future. If you are seeking an iterative fast-paced environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve extreme-scale real world delivery challenges, and provide visible benefit to end-users, this is your opportunity. Come work on the Amazon Direct Connect Team!

Background:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and networking services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. Our services are trusted by the largest enterprises and the hottest startups to power a wide variety of workloads.

The AWS Direct Connect team delivers solutions that make it easy for customers to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to the AWS cloud. These connections help to reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. Direct Connect is currently available in more than 130+ locations in 84 cities located in 32 countries.
This position can be based in Seattle WA or Herndon VA.

Opportunity
In this role of Tech Infra Program Manager (TIPM), you will provide project leadership, anticipate bottlenecks, mitigate project risks, quantify the impact of making tradeoffs, and balance business needs against technical constraints. The team has a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and innovation-based problems. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness. This TIPM will lead infrastructure deployment projects across a wide range of technologies and standards. This role will give you an opportunity to work with many different teams across the organization to deliver solution.

The Ideal Candidate
If you are someone who has passion for technology and you have demonstrated experience for the same, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate has the courage of conviction. To be successful, you must combine superb technical, research and analytical capabilities, and bias for action to get the right things done quickly and effectively. This person must have the ability to deal with ambiguity, think creatively, be comfortable working with a team of top-notch software engineers, network development engineers and collaborating with our partnering teams. We’re looking for people who innovate and love solving hard problems. Cross-team coordination, project management, and executive presentation skills are also essential.

This position is located in Herndon, VA. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. AWS Security is responsible for driving innovative enhancements that raise the bar for how AWS employees interact with resources, systems, and data. At AWS' scale, we must invent new security tools to enable system administrators and developers to build rapidly, while maintaining least privileged access. We are looking for a passionate, innovative, results oriented individual to manage and execute various programs to improve AWS' overall security posture.

The successful candidate is one who loves working directly with software developers to understand their needs, and design security systems and solutions that enable developers to operate more quickly. You are passionate about the security of the cloud and you want to solve real business problems. We are looking for leaders who like to solve problems, and remove obstacles. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect team members and management alike to take high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. You will have the opportunity to engage with systems that are at the cutting edge of technology. You will work directly with AWS service teams, infrastructure and administrative teams to identify opportunities to improve AWS’ security posture. You will design and build tooling, drive process improvements and work with service owners and cutting edge technology to develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges. You can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. You are proactive in removing roadblocks, and can handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You will be a positive influencer across diverse teams, be able to effectively rally support for your initiatives and be able to help deeply technical teams create simple solutions to meet your program goals. You are able to handle business escalations with a data-driven approach to build trust with engineers and Sr. leaders.

A day in the life
As a TPM in AWS Security you will be responsible for a set of long term security outcomes. Your day to day job responsibilities will include:
* Identifying functional and technical requirements collecting inputs from business, security, and technical teams.
* Building technical designs and program plans to implement desired security outcomes
* Working across teams at AWS to refine your plans and obtain buy-in
* Executing the program, providing status to engineers, Sr. leaders, and Sr. executives on a regular basis


About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, 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 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 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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 professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, delivering virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world to include the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) Department of Defense.

AWS Security, Industrial Security & Compliance (IS&C) is responsible for creating, implementing, and overseeing Amazon’s National Industrial Security Program (NISP). As a Program Security Principal supporting the AWS NISP, you will join a team of industry-leading security experts working with the U.S. Government to operate and continuously improve industry-leading security programs and processes in support of the IC Information Technology Enterprise. This position requires innovative thinking balanced with a strong customer obsession and a focus on quality and delivering results.

AWS Security is looking for an exceptional industrial security program manager with a strong track record of supporting security programs within cleared facilities, demonstrable COMSEC program/project management experience, comprehensive program security knowledge, and a deep understanding of IC and Department of Defense government security programs, processes, and requirements in the cloud service provider space.

This role will work across all accredited AWS sites and will own process improvement and the execution of multiple security disciplines in support of fast-moving classified operations and manage a wide array of projects designed to protect personnel, National Security Information, and critical infrastructure from insider and external threats. You must obsess over internal and external customers and successfully deliver support and services in an environment where priorities shift extremely fast. You must be able to operate independently to manage security projects, continuously triage and prioritize accordingly, communicate clearly and compellingly (without PowerPoint), THINK BIG and outside the box, and deliver exceptional products.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.




Key job responsibilities
· Responsible for providing comprehensive security program guidance concerning physical, operational, technical, information, industrial, counterintelligence programs.
· Proactively identify industrial security program and process improvements to successfully sustain and enhance security execution across multiple IC and DoD contracts.
· Develop and strengthen relationships with internal (operations staff, engineers, teammates, etc.) and external (vendors, contractors, government staff, etc.) partners to improve industrial security awareness and engagement.

Here at AWS, 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.

About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentor-ship & Career Growth
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 mentor ship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded Evaluator and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at AWS, 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 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security is looking for a passionate, innovative, results-oriented technical program manager for the AWS Security team. The AWS Security Corporate Security team is responsible for driving innovative enhancements that raise the bar for how AWS employees interact with resources, systems, and data. You will help build a program of repeatable processes for responding to regulatory and audit requests. You will need to use your technical knowledge to dive deep into our security programs such as data loss prevention, identity and access management, supply chain and vendor risk to help document and validate the security controls within our corporate environment.

AWS is looking for a Security TPM to ensure that our infrastructure operates to the highest standards required to maintain and enhance internal and external customer trust. If you enjoy leading teams of engineers and developers analyzing, engineering, and architecting system services, custom services, COTS products, networks, infrastructure applications, and you are skilled at organizing, driving, and communicating laterally and upwards to management, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity in solving complex and far-reaching problems. A successful candidate will have a good mix of deep technical security knowledge and a demonstrated track record of successful complex and large scale project deliveries.

Location can be located in Herndon, VA, Seattle, WA, or NYC.

Key job responsibilities
* Identify new large scale risks and opportunities, using data to validate assumptions and fully define the control environment
* Partner closely with internal service teams and AWS Security Assurance to perform risk assessments and respond to regulatory requests
* Dive deep into the operations of AWS’s corporate security programs to develop a broad domain and technical understanding of our control environment
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of management, building trust across the organization, and demonstrating discretion with sensitive information
* Anticipate bottlenecks and provide escalation management (evaluating trade-offs, dependencies across teams, and making recommendations to stakeholders/leadership while balancing the business needs/commitments with technical constraints)

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, 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 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 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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 professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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