Sr Security Engineering Manager - Hardware Security, Device Security - Amazon

Sr Security Engineering Manager - Hardware Security, Device Security

Job ID: 2789741 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon Devices and Services is an inventive research and development organization that designs and engineers Amazon devices, from Kindle to Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Are you interested in being part of a top-notch security team covering all Amazon devices (including consumer devices like Kindle, FireTV, Echo, Astro robots, Ring doorbells, cameras, drones, etc. and new lines of devices including Kuiper satellites)? If you want to keep customers safe, then we have a job for you! Amazon’s Devices and Services Security is growing and looking for a strong leader. You will be tasked with setting the strategic direction for hardware security for all Amazon devices while developing and taking the team to the next level.

As a Senior Manager at Amazon Devices and Services Security, you will have an enormous opportunity to lead a team of top-notch security engineers respected by product teams, drive down systemic and tactical risk to Amazon devices, and develop long-lasting functions and features for Amazon devices. You care deeply about keeping Amazon customers safe and are passionate about mitigating vulnerabilities/risks by providing actionable guidance and solutions to product teams. You drive long-term security improvements by identifying key gaps and partnering with product teams to drive security improvements at scale. You're well-known for your excellent prioritization skills as well as your ability to communicate at all levels of an organization.

Key job responsibilities

1. Fostering, coaching, recruiting, and scaling a team of world-class hardware security engineers; providing strategic and tactical oversight to the team and the program.
2. Defining a hardware security roadmap; aligning with key business stakeholders to ensure that objectives are focused on areas of key concern for internal and external Amazon customers; providing technical oversight for all phases of the hardware security lifecycle.
3. Creating and driving a culture of inclusion where team members are encouraged to take risks and push limits in order to challenge organizational security assumptions.
4. Partnering with key stakeholders to drive implementation of security-related technical and process controls to remediate risks identified during engagements.
5. Providing updates to senior leadership on a regular cadence.
6. Providing verbal and written summaries of engagements to Amazon stakeholders and business owners.
7. Engaging in retrospectives with the partners and creating a feedback loop to foster continuous improvement of delivery mechanisms and approaches.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field or relevant work experience.
2. 10+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of hands-on hardware security experience.
3. 10+ years managing and building teams (including coaching and mentoring).
4. Strong and proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience and stakeholders.
5. Experience managing a team of strong security engineers to identify strategic and tactical risk.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Master’s degree.
2. 10+ years of risk assessment and vulnerability research and enabling organizations making decisions.
3. Significant experience and detailed technical knowledge in one of the following areas: security engineering, chipset and system security, cryptography, authentication, and security protocols.
4. Experience with threat modeling or other risk identification techniques, and risk management.
5. Experience partnering and influencing cross-functional engineering, QA, and testing teams to drive security improvements in complex environments.
6. Experience driving prioritization of security risks/vulnerabilities and ensuring that they are properly understood by the business and fixed and/or mitigated.
7. Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations and drive actions.

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