Senior Security Technical Program Manager in Melbourne

Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance with the ability to successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud service provider, providing virtualised infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises to large government customers, run their operations and applications on AWS’ highly secure infrastructure.

As a Senior Security Technical Program Manager (Sr. TPM) within our team, you’ll influence and own long-term security outcomes for AWS. You’ll be working with external customers and regulated industries to understand their needs. You’ll be able to design security systems and solutions that enable them to operate more effectively, securely and safely. You will work with your team, partners, and customers to innovate and deliver on the vision and purpose of your programs.

Key job responsibilities:

• Coordinate security-related engagements with both internal and external customers, ensuring effective communication and alignment of security objectives.
• Identify security packages of work and meticulously plan for their delivery within agreed timeframes, leveraging strategic foresight to anticipate and address potential challenges.
• Implement ISM, PSPF, DSPF, ASIO T4, NIST and/or other security compliance frameworks into design and build baselines to achieve the agreed security posture.
• Create, optimize, and support cross-functional working groups and projects, fostering collaboration and synergy across departments to enhance security capabilities.
• Utilize domain expertise to develop thought leadership material on cloud and emerging technologies, contributing to industry discourse and organizational knowledge sharing.
• Manage tight deadlines with precision and drive results, exhibiting exceptional attention to detail and ensuring the successful completion of projects and initiatives.
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams to align technical dependencies, manage competing priorities, and ensure synchronised progress towards program milestones.
• Engage in technical architecture discussions about security controls, understand complex system dependencies across logical and physical domains, and make informed trade-off decisions that balance security rigour with delivery timelines.
• Identify and manage risk through the security lens to mitigate security risk that may impact on assurance outcomes, which in turn may impact program delivery.

A day in the life:

You’ll immerse yourself in teams and leaders from different program stakeholders and businesses at AWS. You'll play a vital role in ensuring security outcomes crucial to our mission. Your contributions will directly shape our program's well-being and establish standards for technical security achievements.

About The Team:

Diverse Experiences: Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

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.

Training and 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Understanding of the unique challenges, constraints, and processes involved in operating within classified government environments.
• Technical understanding of security controls across multiple domains sufficient to evaluate architectural approaches and identify implementation risks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering cyber security programs in Australia aligned with the Information Security Manual (ISM) and Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF).
• Proven track record achieving certification, accreditation, and assurance of software systems to obtain Authority to Operate (ATO) for highly classified systems.

Acknowledgement Of Country: In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community.

IDE Statement: Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.