Amazon Security is looking for a Sr. Security Industry Specialist (SIS) to join the Physical Security Operations (PhysSecOps) Team! This role is aligned with the AWS Security Operations Center (SOC) and is at the forefront of driving physical security operations across Amazon Security spanning a range of physical, logical, and technical domains.

At Amazon Security, we obsess over our customers and maintaining their trust. To earn that trust in an environment as vast and varied as ours, requires broad technical and industry skills to drive emergent response and tackle never-before-seen challenges at accelerated scales.

Security is our highest priority. As an AWS SOC PhysSecOps team member and Sr. Security Industry Specialist, you will apply your experience to drive innovative security and risk mitigation solutions. An ideal candidate possesses the ability to gain and or maintain an in-depth understanding of disparate security systems and workflows in order to guide, consult, and drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams. This role requires tactical work with both internal and external stakeholders, along with strategic thought to solve security challenges at scale.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.

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Key job responsibilities
• Apply high-judgement while managing in-flight security issues. Triage/assess security issues and engage with internal service teams to ensure prompt mitigation and remediation of issues, escalating internally as necessary to ensure the right level of urgency and engagement.
• Communicate the state of these issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders, in varying levels and roles.
• Develop and implement risk frameworks to provide transparency to drive high judgement decisions.
• Analyze the security of devices, applications and services to identify security risks and mitigations, and quickly react to new threat scenarios.
• Act as an escalation and quality assurance focal for the team, providing broad and deep solutions that achieve outcomes while maintain an acceptable level of risk.
• Deliver working mechanisms/solutions spanning the full incident lifecycle, working backwards from both our internal needs and those of our customers.
• Drive execution and maintain alignment through creating program management structure and engagement with tech and non-tech stakeholders, leaders and executives.


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.