Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Leo Security Controls and Assurance

Amazon • Arlington, VA

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About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission
is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the
world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and
performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to
schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations
operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control : This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S.
Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to
the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.

We have a team culture that encourages ownership, diversity, inclusion, and
innovation. You will have an opportunity to work across the entire Leo
organization implementing and managing various controls along side Leo Security.
Leo security owns policy and definition of controls, and this role owns the
coordination, development, implementation, and change management of controls as
well as managing defects and improvements.

The Amazon Leo Security Controls and Assurance team owns a variety of security
fields for regulated productivity environments including security architecture,
incident response, threat hunting, compliance, and security tool management.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical product or program management 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
• Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Experience managing security control programs and implementation of security controls across various systems (e.g. FedRAMP, CMMC, ISO)

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program management for large-scale, multi-team security initiatives from inception through delivery and post-launch review
• Define program scope, goals, milestones, and success metrics in partnership with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• Identify, track, and mitigate risks, dependencies, and blockers across program workstreams
• Drive alignment across engineering teams, leadership, and external partners through clear communication, structured escalation paths, and regular program reviews
• Lead cross-functional working groups and facilitate technical decision-making processes
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for non-technical audience
• Influence roadmap prioritization and resource allocation decisions at the team and org level

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed