Senior Security Manager, Vulnerability Management and Remediation (VMR)

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

The Store’s Security Vulnerability Management and Remediation (VMR) organization
manages the entire vulnerability management (VM) program across Amazon’s retail
business and special teams. VMR operates at an unprecedented asset scale, as
well as diversity of business lines ranging from Cloud, Health Care, Payments,
Devices, Fulfillment, and even drones! VMR’s mission is to be Earth’s best VM
team, keeping customers safe and enabling software teams to build cool new
innovations securely. We are looking for a Senior Manager of Security
Engineering to take on this mission and our scale to make a profound impact
across Amazon and its external customers.

Are you interested in building and leading a focused top-notch security team
responsible for securing
assets from IoT to Drones? Do you get excited about the challenge of harmonizing
differentiated security objectives into common solutions and processes? Do you
like to analyze, play with data, and innovate with AI? Are you excited about
getting into deep details of how software, hardware, and devices work as well as
how vulnerabilities impact them? If so, this role is for you! This role requires
understanding how software is built, businesses operate, to scale processes,
assess risk, and make deep data driven decisions to manage vulnerabilities.
Further, this role requires an innovator that wants to change the status quo to
improve outcomes for customers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience
• 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience
• 10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring) experience
• 10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of information security risk-based prioritization
• Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services

Responsibilities

• As the Senior Security Manager in the VMR organization you will be responsible for managing Store’s security risk, vetting security solutions and software implementations, partnering with executives across the company, and leading a best-in-class security organization to support Amazon builders.
• You will create vision, charters, mechanisms, processes, and solutions that ensure 100% of vulnerabilities that could impact Amazon customer’s are resolved.
• You will work cross functionally across software teams that build solutions for your team, as well as other security organizations to drive outcomes.
• You will have an infectious desire for securing customers, and analyzing through data which actions need to be taken every day.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level