Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides developers and their organizations with foundational web services and products that enable them to innovate faster and to operate their software more cost effectively. AWS Identity teams are building secure identity, authentication, authorization, resource management, and governance systems for the AWS Cloud. Our products provide the core authentication and authorization technologies used to access all AWS services (such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB) and help customers meet their individual security requirements.
As part of the identity solutions team, you will work to understand and build end-to-end identity scenarios. You will work with customers to understand details of their identity solutions, provide recommendations, and build test environments. You will use your identity and security experience to identify and recommend opportunities for AWS to streamline the experience. Additionally, you will use your experience to develop customer facing guidance such as case studies, talks, and blog posts.

AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud providerfrom infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databasesto emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

The successful candidate will have deep technical skills that enable them to engage closely with customers and AWS teams on end-to-end identity solutions. They will rely on their experience building on AWS to build test labs to understand identity capabilities across AWS. They rely on their experience, judgement, and ability to influence to guide customers toward recommend best practices. They have relentlessly high standards and use this to deliver simple, but comprehensive, information to all AWS customers.

The right candidate must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in, and get the job done. As a TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. You must have the ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.

We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

8+ years of experience in technical IT security, identity, or related role
5+ years of project delivery experience working with internal and/or external customers to launch programs, products, or services
BS degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, or equivalent experience
Hands-on technical expertise building and supporting security and/or identity solutions
An understanding of the cloud computing business model

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Demonstrated ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
Experience building solutions using AWS services.
Experience working with to Fortune 1000 and/or Global 2000 organizations.
Strong ability to dive deep into customer solutions
Willingness to be hands-on to experiment with and learn about a variety of technical solutions
Strong analytical skills and demonstrated ability to turn detailed analysis into useful strategic insights and make appropriate recommendations.
Experience and detailed knowledge of the identity use cases and insights related to cloud computing and IT.
Strong verbal and written communications skills.
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