Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic, growing business unit within Amazon.com. Since early 2006, AWS has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure platform in the cloud. Using AWS, companies can requisition compute power, storage, and other services gaining access to a global computing infrastructure that is the backbone of Amazon.coms multi-billion dollar retail business. Today, AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers millions of active monthly customers from start-ups to multi-national corporations to governments.

AWS Perimeter Protection protects Amazon AWS, Amazon.com, and AWS customers ranging from startups to the worlds biggest brands against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and other internet application threats. Customers look to our three public services, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, and AWS Firewall Manager, for application protection, so that they can focus instead on building their business. By applying machine learning to automatically defend against evolving threats, we are raising the bar for application security. We build everything from hardware and software devoted to network packet inspection to globally distributed AWS services capable of absorbing the worlds largest attacks.

AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency. We are seeking a General Manager to lead the AWS Shield business, owning product management, engineering, operations, and go-to-market strategy. The successful candidate will partner with product marketing, business development and sales to drive adoption and revenue of AWS Shield. Prior experience in application security or networking, with an understanding of protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, HTTPS, DHCP, and DNS is not required, but is a strong plus.

Responsibilities will include:
Growing and operating the AWS Shield business
Managing a geographically distributed team of 60+, including engineering, product and go-to-market execution
Partnering with product marketing, business development and sales to drive adoption and revenue
Delivering innovative and iterative solutions to significantly improve DDoS resiliency for the global Amazon network, Amazon.com, and all AWS services
Contributing to the overall strategy for AWS Perimeter Protection and AWS Network Services

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
Ability to dive deep with a willingness to learn what they lack. They should be able to review system designs and have a good sense of feasibility, operational stability, and time to deliver.
Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
Strong product leadership. They will have a history of innovative product definition backed by good judgment.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to drive cross-team collaboration
Consistent record of hiring, developing and managing high performing engineering teams
Experience with scale and pace
Passion for operational excellence
Alignment with Amazon Leadership Principles, with particular emphasis on Are Right a Lot, Deliver Results, Insist on the Highest Standards, and Customer Obsession

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline preferred.
Experience leading large, multi-discipline, global organizations (200+ people).
Proven ability to lead information security for a significant global business where security was fundamental to the success of the enterprise
Technical expertise in software development, networking/infrastructure and distributed systems is required
Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire in a hands-on fashion

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of management experience.
10+ years of hands on engineering experience, either software, systems or network. Must have personally delivered big technology solutions, not just supervised.
Ability to develop and sell a network vision, strategy and plan to diverse audiences including executive leadership and customers.
Must have built and led a high performing team that delivered extraordinary services
Must be capable of taking on a business ownership role, and be able to ramp up quickly and operate independently.
Preferred to have one or more significant technical inventions (not necessarily patents)
Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
Exhibits excellent judgment
Hires great people. Develops great people
Has relentlessly high standards
Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
Thinks big and has convictions
Results oriented
Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others