Description

The Third Party Security (TPS) team looking for a highly motivated Operations Manager. TPS is responsible for assessing the security of third party's who get access to Amazon’s data, to determine if the third party meets Amazon’s security bar. The TPS team handles global third party security assessments for the Amazon Stores Digital and Others (SDO) organization. If you enjoy working at scale in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the protection of our customers within a large global organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.

Key job responsibilities

• Managing a team of subject matter experts that perform risk-based security reviews and assessments at a high volume

• Collecting/reviewing data from multiple sources to assess the operations of the program

• Mentoring and training team members to develop and enhance their skillset

• Building, evolving, and improving sustainable processes and measurement systems to ensure that security policy requirements are maintained

• Preparing reports for senior management on the state of vendor compliance

• Reviewing exceptions to Amazon policy and determining risk and impact

• Serving as an advisor on security & compliance issues for operations staff

• Maintaining a broad understanding of the global regulatory landscape impacting Amazon

• Advising project and legal teams on ensuring the required security terms are in contracts and participate in contract negotiations with sensitive external partners at a global level

• Determining strategy for highly sensitive and/or high profile assessments

• Maintaining metrics on global vendor security and compliance

• Ensuring the team delivers on security goals, and make recommendations for incremental process improvement

• Occasional travel may be required

About the team

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.

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.

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 & 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.

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.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant Information Security experience

• 4+ years of team and people management experience

• 4+ years of technical security assessment experience

• Technical knowledge in at least four security domains such as engineering, system and network security, authentication, or security protocols

• Experience running complex assessments across multiple security domains, creating findings, and reviewing remediation items

Preferred Qualifications

• CISSP, CISA, or related Information Security certification

• Consistent demonstration of utilizing automation to solve recurring problems at scale

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units

• Skilled in risk management, business risk analysis, and making complex business/risk trade-off recommendations and decisions

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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.