The successful candidate is one who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You are passionate about utilizing big data and analytics to solve real security problems. This role offers you the opportunity to lead the generation of threat intelligence and drive the technical means to apply that intelligence understanding to improve our security posture across the full breadth of Amazon - from our infrastructure and platforms to our physical operations, subsidiaries, and customer-facing services. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect team members to take a high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. You will work directly with other Amazon Security teams, business units, and operational teams across Amazon to identify opportunities to improve our security posture.
This leader is expected to have a track record of delivering high-quality results and best-in-class solutions in a fast-moving environment. We need someone who's comfortable building teams, developing staff, and leading by example. Our services operate at enormous scale and on critical workloads, so passion and discipline for operational excellence is key. We are a mixed-discipline team that identifies opportunities to improve the security posture of Amazon's entire ecosystem and drives their implementation across the company. This team helps Amazon's businesses and customers operate securely through the implementation of innovative security solutions. The ability to prioritize, communicate clearly and compellingly, and drive a high level of focus and excellence within a strong team is crucial.
Key job responsibilities
Lead a team of Security Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and Intel Analysts, providing strategic direction and tactical oversight.
Maintain a prioritized roadmap to address gaps and improve practices.
Communicate threats to leadership, customers, and partners in a consistent voice and format.
Coordinate with service owners to assess threats and align controls across platforms, evaluate security incidents to identify patterns including the tactics, techniques, and procedures, and use the data to predict threat trends.
Establish and enforce terminology, reporting requirements, and automation to ensure consistent analysis.
Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple groups as part of the organization's security effort.
Communicate project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner.
Negotiate and develop remediation plans for large-scale issues across multiple business organizations.
Coordinate with partner security teams to build tracking and reporting capabilities to drive down risks.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field or commensurate work history.
15+ years of industry experience of increasing responsibility leading teams, driving technology, threat intelligence processes, methodologies, and tools.
15+ years of industry experience with threat intelligence methods, standards, processes, and industry standard intelligence lifecycle approach.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience as an intelligence analyst with an emphasis on computer/network defense.
Ability to think and innovate at scale.
Multidisciplinary experience in intelligence, incident response, forensics, program management, and product development.
Experience with global technology implementation efforts and rollouts in large organizations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Handles multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity in a rapidly changing business environment.
Ability to exercise sound judgement, problem solve and make decisions in complex situations. Proven ability to take ownership, self-motivate, and deliver results in highly ambiguous environments.
