Technical Program Manager, AWS Security SecDevOps

Job summary
As a Technical Program Manager (TPM II), on the AWS Security SecDevOps team, you will be a critical part of an organization focused on influencing the security culture within Amazon. The SecDevOps team is responsible for building internal services critical to the AWS Security Incident Response organization. You will support and enhance the daily operations of our team by identifying, selecting, prioritizing, planning, and executing strategic improvement projects. You will apply your knowledge of project management and the software development lifecycle to deliver automation efforts that scale security engineer efficiency for Amazon, coordinate security incident management and incident response tooling across teams, and implement improvements and efficiencies across the organization. You will identify future opportunities for improvement through implementing and analyzing quantitative metrics around program functions. You will coordinate with other PMs, TPMs, Software Development Engineers, and Security Engineers to deliver frameworks and mechanisms, which provide services to other security engineering teams. You will help the team develop repeatable processes that improve program capabilities and project execution. You will be a crucial element for our team, ensuring the continued safety and security of our customers.

We are looking for a TPM for an area of strategic importance and significant impact to AWS Security. We are custodians of the incident management and incident response service used by security engineers in the AWS Security Incident Response organization. We innovate both on the frontend side and backend side to lower latencies for customer requests, improve security engineer efficiency, and deliver features for our customers.

In this role, you will collaborate with Customer Management and Engineering teams to drive roadmap and new features for services owned by the SecDevOps team. You will also drive adoption and growth of these services.

The right candidate will possess a strong technical program management background, will have demonstrated experience leading medium to large projects for a team, and will want to have a lasting impact in the AWS Security space. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done.

Our team works together to provide work/life balance for all team members. We recognize that the circumstances of our team members vary, and we balance work across the team so that we're all able to maintain high standards on behalf of our customers, while at the same time allowing for rich and happy personal lives.

This job can be staffed in either Herndon, VA or Seattle, WA.



Key job responsibilities
Inform strategy, vision, deliverables needed, action items, and partnership with stakeholders while helping the team successfully execute on strategic projects.
Working with security engineer customers to identify requirements to better serve them with services, tools, and automation - you are a liason between the team and our customers
Working closely with partner teams to scope interactions, plan and align long-term strategy, execute strategic projects, and manage the integration process of project deliverables
Working on behalf of the SecDevOps team to get stakeholder buy-in, funding, and resourcing for new/proposed projects.
Driving technical integration efforts, working with service teams to develop standardized, and repeatable processes, and tracking outcomes
Manage the complete lifecycle of our software development efforts by helping define our roadmap with internally used products, tracking new and backlogged feature requests, and track user feedback for iterative improvement
Providing regular and ad-hoc status updates to the teams, senior leaders, and senior executives on a regular basis

About the team
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.