Penetration Testing Manager, Amazon Stores Security

**This role is also open to Seattle, WA | Austin, TX | New York, NY**

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
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Why Amazon Security?
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Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years experience in a technical security leadership (people manager) role
- 5+ years of experience in Information Security related domains, with knowledge of security fundamentals, application vulnerabilities, application attack vectors, penetration testing methodologies, and tools
- 3+ years of experience driving Information Security initiatives across large diverse organizations
- 3+ years of experience communicating with a wide range of technical & non-technical partners and senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience leading teams across multiple locations
- Ability to exercise sound judgement, problem solve, and make decisions in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge
- Ability to write effective communications
- Sharp analytical abilities and attention to detail
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to take ownership, self-motivate, and deliver results in highly ambiguous environments
- Experience with driving remediation/mitigation of security issues and control gaps
- Experience gathering and reporting metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency
- Technical knowledge of adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)
- Experience with cloud service providers and their offerings, preferably AWS, and its various technologies and services
- Knowledge of system or security design approaches with experience driving engineering and architectures to deliver results
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $157,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $272,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.