AWS Security Operations Center (SOC) Team is looking for a progressive, strategic, and agile Principal Security Industry Specialist to join the team. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in a strategic capacity, is operationally dynamic, with technical acumen, and flourish in an ambiguous environment. This role is critical in maintaining the security posture of the organization. As a principal security industry specialist, you will develop and implement overall operations strategy for the organization, work with various leaders throughout security organizations and across business lines to foster a culture of continuous improvement, efficiencies, and innovations. A successful candidate will prioritize, communicate clearly and compellingly, and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence. AWS in general, and the SOC in particular, operates at very large scale and demands high standards, passion and discipline around security and delivery is critical. A high level of ownership and accountability is a must to include on-call engagement on issues and supporting an effective security response team. After-hours calls, night/weekend work, international travel, and participation in escalation paging will be required.
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Key job responsibilities
* Strong interpersonal skills, including excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
* Drive large-scale, long-term efforts to solve complex problems
* Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests
* Make an impact that echoes through solutions, the product, and the company
* Utilize strong, data-driven business judgment to implement decisions
* Demonstrate the highest security industry standards in work quality
* Shape long-term security strategy aligned with business objectives
* Drive major security initiatives across multiple teams/organizations
* Identifies/addresses systematic security challenges before they become critical
* Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, build strong partnerships, and influence decisions
* Mentor and develop the next generation of security leaders and champion security initiatives
* Ability to travel up to 30% of time globally
About the team
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.
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.
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.* Bachelor’s degree in security discipline, Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, (or) 10+ years’ equivalent incident response, data center operations, or security management experience.
* 10+ years of creating and managing complex, cross-team programs from strategy through delivery/adoption (especially in a technical field)
* 10+ years’ experience managing complex global issues and coordinating across multiple business lines/regions.* Ability to present complex data/security findings in a clear/concise manner to a variety of audiences.
* Understanding of security infrastructure, incident management, and general IT knowledge.
* Ability to independently collect, research, and analyze technical information from a variety of sources to solve problems, troubleshoot, and build solutions with security in mind.
* Knowledge of Internet security issues, cloud architecture, and threat landscape.
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