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Technical Program Manager II, Platform Security
Amazon.comUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Feb 2025
💰 $197,800/yr($114,500/yr – $197,800/yr)
About the role
Come join Earth’s most customer-centric company! Amazon is looking for a highly motivated Technical Program Manager with strong insight and passion for security to ensure our infrastructure technologies are designed and built to the highest standards. The successful candidate will build the bridges between a highly technical information security group and Amazon’s platform, application, and 3rd party entities. The successful candidate is a technical security professional who can dive deep into complex designs and architectures and map technical features and IT processes to Amazon’s security requirements.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage effective communications with senior-level stakeholders such as project delivery teams, infrastructure custodians, application development teams, internal information security teams, 3rd party vendors, etc.
- Drive cross-team efforts, define well-considered objectives and metrics, and collect and analyze data to guide decision-making and affect change
- Support process improvement, security platform development, and control implementation projects in coordination with the partner project and information security teams
- Maintain and communicate the team’s progress report, program metrics, project and operational risk matrices, deliverable timelines, project dependencies, etc.
- Liaise between the information security team and the main project teams and manage stakeholder relationships
- Assist project stakeholders in meeting security design and architecture requirements and communicate residual risk status to the appropriate party
About the team
The Platform Security Team is responsible for designing and building preventative solutions for Amazon platforms and major projects. We focus our efforts in the Network and Edge spaces to protect Customer data while empowering our Amazon builder teams to innovate using secured platforms and networks. The Platform SecurityTeam is comprised of an accomplished security engineering core with a mandate to define and implement solutions that impact applications at the scale of Amazon. We hire innovative individuals who exemplify our Leadership Principles. Come join us to work hard, have fun, and make history!
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.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training and Career growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 2+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience in system design
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonia
Key job responsibilities
- Manage effective communications with senior-level stakeholders such as project delivery teams, infrastructure custodians, application development teams, internal information security teams, 3rd party vendors, etc.
- Drive cross-team efforts, define well-considered objectives and metrics, and collect and analyze data to guide decision-making and affect change
- Support process improvement, security platform development, and control implementation projects in coordination with the partner project and information security teams
- Maintain and communicate the team’s progress report, program metrics, project and operational risk matrices, deliverable timelines, project dependencies, etc.
- Liaise between the information security team and the main project teams and manage stakeholder relationships
- Assist project stakeholders in meeting security design and architecture requirements and communicate residual risk status to the appropriate party
About the team
The Platform Security Team is responsible for designing and building preventative solutions for Amazon platforms and major projects. We focus our efforts in the Network and Edge spaces to protect Customer data while empowering our Amazon builder teams to innovate using secured platforms and networks. The Platform SecurityTeam is comprised of an accomplished security engineering core with a mandate to define and implement solutions that impact applications at the scale of Amazon. We hire innovative individuals who exemplify our Leadership Principles. Come join us to work hard, have fun, and make history!
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.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training and Career growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 2+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience in system design
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experienceAmazon 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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonia
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