Penetration Testing Manager, Stores Security

Description
Amazon's Penetration Testing organization is growing and is seeking a Penetration Testing Manager to help keep Amazon secure for its customers. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of highly skilled penetration testers to assess Amazon's services, applications, and websites. This role will provide you with challenging leadership and technical opportunities, and if hacking Amazon sounds exciting to you, will also be a lot of fun.

You will be in direct contact with teams in a variety of business verticals, giving you first hand knowledge about how Amazon is built and how it operates at a deep, technical level. Additionally, you will leverage the knowledge you gain about Amazon to find new ways to drive improvements to services, processes, and technologies throughout the company, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the continued safety and security of our customers.

You will be focused on using your leadership and technical skills to continually lead the direction and evolution of the team and orchestrate penetration testing engagements in order to maintain and raise Amazon's high security bar. Additionally, you'll be driving strategic initiatives from your team by influencing key stakeholders and partnering with teams throughout Amazon to enable the implementation of innovative security solutions and controls to improve Amazon's security and software development posture. You'll be backed up by a team of highly skilled security engineers focused on attacking Amazon from a variety of perspectives, all working with a singular focus on maintaining our customer's trust. You must also demonstrate resilience and navigate ambiguous situations with composure and tact. Above all else, a strong sense of customer obsession is necessary to focus on the ultimate goal of keeping Amazon and its Customers secure.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a high performing technical Penetration Testing Team distributed across multiple locations
• Lead the strategic direction and evolution of the Penetration Testing Team, including setting goals and establishing priorities
• Drive strategic initiatives by influencing leadership, key stakeholders, and partnering with teams throughout Amazon
• Lead effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
• Lead improvements to internal program and process
• Write and deliver high-quality documents for technical and non-technical audiences

About The Team
About Amazon Security

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

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Work/Life Balance

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience in managing and developing teams
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team, or experience managing teams
• Experience driving security programs across large diverse organizations
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• 5+ years of experience in Information Security related domains, with knowledge of security fundamentals, application vulnerabilities, application attack vectors, penetration testing methodologies, and tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading across multiple locales
• Experience dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment
• Experience communicating technical details verbally and in writing
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

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Company
- Amazon UK Services Ltd.

Job ID: A3099169