Senior Security Technical Program Manager, AWS Security

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. For more information regarding security clearances please visit (https://www.agsva.gov.au/). 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. While working directly with AWS service teams, infrastructure, and administrative teams, you’ll identify opportunities to improve AWS’ project security posture. This will include building tools, driving process improvements, and working with service owners to develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges. You will be responsible to identify, plan and deliver program security outcomes by independently engaging a broad set of internal and external stakeholders. Key job responsibilities * Coordinate security-related engagements with both internal and external customers, ensuring effective communication and alignment of security objectives. * Coordinate security related engagements with internal and external customers. * 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. * Be proactive to removing roadblocks, fostering innovation, and managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, driving continuous improvement and efficiency. * 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 (e.g. services teams, network teams, infrastructure teams, physical security teams, and operations teams) to align technical dependencies, manage competing priorities, and ensuring 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. Maintain a "top-down" strategic view of timelines, risks, and resource constraints across the program while possessing technical credibility to challenge engineering approaches and identify early architectural risks. * 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. Hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see