Senior Security Intelligence Specialist, AWS Security, AWS Security

Position description

Ready to take on challenges at the leading edge of geopolitics and technology, and shape the future of security? Our team does this every day. We are looking for an adaptable and creative risk intelligence professional with deep expertise in the geopolitics of China to join us.

This unique role within the security space combines the functions of strategic intelligence analyst, risk manager, and policy advisor. Our team leads internal efforts to understand, manage, and reduce risk to our cloud and physical infrastructure from the earliest stages of development through deployment. You’ll work independently and with customers and stakeholders on interesting and complex issues to solve problems on a global scale. You’ll provide deep analytic insights on a wide range of issues and develop innovative strategies to secure the cloud, supporting infrastructure, and other assets as AWS expands. Your contributions will be both low and high visibility within the company and will have both immediate and longer-term impacts on the security and trust of our customers.

Ideal candidates will have consistently demonstrated the ability to conduct rigorous research and analysis on a variety of geopolitical and security issues; produce written analytic products that effectively support positive security outcomes; and communicate efficiently (both in writing and verbally) on complex topics, risks, and opportunities to mixed audiences (up to senior executive levels). Though this is a non-technical role, you’ll grow your familiarity and acquire experience in a variety of cloud and related technical knowledge areas. While this is an individual contributor role, you’ll lead projects that cross multiple teams and business functions and will need to draw on various types of management skills. This role requires a collaborative, curious, self-aware individual that will lean in when faced with ambiguity and high judgment situations.

Key job responsibilities
• Maintain knowledge of Asia-Pacific, China, and global geopolitical and security factors; develop in-depth understanding of potential impacts to AWS
• Collect, organize, analyze, and evaluate a variety of internal and external data sources to produce both tactical and strategic analysis
• Apply industry (intelligence, risk) techniques and best practices to draw analytic conclusions that provide decision advantage for business units and leaders at all levels (including senior executive / C-suite level)
• Plan and deliver a variety of analytic products (short-form and long-form intelligence analysis, risk assessments, etc.) on varying timelines
• Evaluate risks associated with operating globally, deploying new technologies, and entering new locations by conducting rigorous assessments of geopolitical conditions and local security dynamics
• Create innovative approaches that effectively manage risks while meeting customer and business needs by developing holistic security strategies and establishing or maturing discrete, actionable mitigations
• Communicate intelligence analysis, risk assessments, and security guidance to diverse audiences effectively through written narratives, one-to-one conversations, and group discussions
• Ensure that the security bar is always met or raised by maintaining relationships with customers and stakeholders, integrating with partner teams to manage projects, and leading collective efforts to completion by deadlines

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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Political Science, International Relations, Security Studies, or similar area; or 8+ years equivalent industry experience
• Expertise in security and political issues pertaining to China (internally, regionally, and globally)
• 7+ years of progressively greater responsibility and experience in the analysis of international security issues and global geopolitics; experience can be from intelligence community, military, private sector, non-profit or other organizations
• 5+ years of direct involvement with researching, analyzing, writing, editing, and publishing finished intelligence or other analytic reports
• Experience applying structured analytic techniques and industry analytic standards in answering intelligence questions and/or other decision support product requests
• Experience assessing risk and developing discrete mitigations and broad strategies; familiarity with risk management methodologies and/or risk analysis techniques
• Professional level language proficiency Mandarin Chinese (reading and listening/speaking).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree (master’s or doctorate) in the field of international relations, political science, public policy, security studies, or a related area of study
• 8-10 years of progressively greater responsibility and experience industry experience in the analysis of international geopolitical and security issues
• Experience owning/representing an organization’s China portfolio area requiring strong understanding of US-China and China-Global dynamics
• Experience living or working within Asia-Pacific and/or greater China Region (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong)
• Full professional and scientific/technical level fluency in Mandarin Chinese language
• Strong understanding of risk management discipline; experience performing cyber, geopolitical or physical infrastructure risk assessments; and/or certifications, training, or coursework within the risk management field
• Experience developing courses of action and advising executive level leaders or non-experts on security policy; ability to bridge technical and non-technical teams
• Experience managing projects or programs (short and long-term)
• Knowledge of information systems, cloud services, information security, cybersecurity, or science and technology security; knowledge/familiarity can be from academic coursework, industry experience, or self-study
• Exceptional skills in communication (verbal and written); negotiation, influence, and/or data-driven advocacy; stakeholder management; multitasking and portfolio management; and leadership (especially leading without formal authority)

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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