Search Privacy & Information Security TPM, Search Operational Readiness Team

Job summary
Amazon Search is one of the world’s largest product search engines, with millions of global customers executing billions of daily queries. As Amazon Search provides a core customer experience, we prioritize resiliency, security, and operational readiness to ensure a stable, secure, and highly available service. The Amazon Search organization has multiple global teams responsible for development and production operations, capacity planning, quality engineering, and service resiliency. We seek a seasoned Privacy & Information Security Technical Project Manager to lead our Search-wide security and privacy initiatives and programs. As a member of the center of engineering and operational excellence for Amazon Search, you will drive security tooling and best practices across service teams, ensure that we meet Amazon-wide security and privacy standards, and manage security and privacy org-wide campaigns.

Amazon Search extensively leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, including Dynamo DB, S3, EC2, SQS, ECS, and services written in Python, Scala, Java and C++. If you are passionate about privacy and information security for large-scale distributed systems in the cloud, we would love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage Search Security and Privacy programs; act as a single point of contact for Search within the Amazon Consumer organization.
• Partner with the global Amazon InfoSec community to drive Search interests and requirements; act as a single point of contact for Amazon InfoSec mandates and initiatives.
• Drive initiatives to comply with Amazon data encryption standards for all Search Services.
• Partner with service teams to identify and certify their applications against Amazon Security and Privacy standards.
• Partner with service teams to drive implementation of Amazon security and privacy initiatives and programs.
• Dive into details of issues, provide design input for the systems, and drive the execution of decisions that impact products, systems, and the team.
• Seek diverse perspectives from our teams of technical experts to drive bottom-up innovation to improve operational excellence and service resilience.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical program management experience
• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and proven ability to lead and drive org-wide meetings effectively.
• Excellent understanding of distributed and decentralized data processing systems.
• Excellent understanding of computer networking, network security, internet protocols, TLS/SSL, basic encryption standards, and firewalls.
• Expertise in data privacy, security compliance, and distributed systems’ security.
• 6+ years of relevant hands-on technical project/program management experience in a large-scale production Linux/UNIX environment. Experience driving projects/programs across teams, organizations, and continents.
• 6+ years as a software engineer or system engineer for an internet company.
• 6+ years of experience with Linux, Apache, DNS, monitoring, load-balancing, and caching.
• 2+ years experience with AWS infrastructure and tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in several areas: Python, Java, C++, Unix/Linux use, and internals
• Expertise in operations of highly available and scalable internet systems with large customer bases.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with a solid track record of excellent delivery skills.
• Detail-oriented – capable of technical deep-dives, understanding of networking, operating systems, and storage in depth.
• Experience managing projects in a matrix style across multiple sites and timezones.

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