Penetration Testing Manager, Amazon Stores Security
Job ID: 3099169 | Amazon UK Services Ltd.
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. If hacking Amazon sounds exciting to you, it will also be a lot of fun.
You will be in direct contact with teams in a variety of business verticals, giving you hands‑on knowledge about how Amazon is built and operates at a deep, technical level. You will leverage that knowledge to drive improvements to services, processes, and technologies across the company, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the continued safety and security of our customers.
You will focus on using your leadership and technical skills to continually guide the direction and evolution of the team and orchestrate penetration testing engagements to maintain and raise Amazon’s high security bar. You will drive strategic initiatives by influencing key stakeholders and partnering with teams across Amazon to enable the implementation of innovative security solutions and controls to improve Amazon’s security and software development posture. You will be supported by a team of security engineers focused on attacking Amazon from multiple perspectives, all working to maintain our customers’ trust. You must demonstrate resilience and navigate ambiguous situations with composure and tact, with a strong sense of customer obsession to keep 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 programs and processes
* 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 creates and maintains a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities across cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture: We learn and are curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing toughest security challenges requires a diversity of ideas and perspectives.
Training & Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar and provide knowledge-sharing, training, and career-advancing resources to help you develop into a well-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance: We value work‑life harmony. Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture to support you at work and at home.
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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