Project Leo is an Amazon initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of more than 3,000 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
At Project Leo, we are obsessed with customer trust. We are looking for a hands-on individual contributor who is passionate about building security risk management programs that protect Leo's customers, systems, and data. In this role, you will bring Leo's existing risk assessment mechanisms and risk indicators together into a cohesive, scalable risk management program. You will partner with business, engineering, and security teams across Amazon to identify, assess, and prioritize security risks, drive them to remediation or formal acceptance, and give leaders a clear view of Leo's risk posture.
The Security Risk Management Specialist on the Leo Security Assurance team will drive security risk management across Leo's space and ground systems, networks, infrastructure, and supply chain. This role is at the forefront of delivering highly secure satellite and terrestrial broadband services to consumer, enterprise, telecom, transportation, and government customers worldwide. Much of this work is new, so you will often work in areas with no established playbook, clear owner, or defined scope. You will bring structure to that ambiguity and help build programs that scale as Leo grows.
The ideal candidate is an experienced security risk professional with a solid understanding of systems, security, and privacy processes. You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences and influence decisions across multiple organizations. You have built or matured risk management programs, run risk assessments end to end, and escalated risks to leadership. You are familiar with frameworks such as NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001, and you look for ways to use automation and AI to make risk work more efficient and reliable.
This role is based in Seattle, Washington or Arlington, Virginia.
Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
Organize Leo's existing risk assessment mechanisms and risk indicators into a cohesive security risk management program aligned with frameworks such as NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001, and standardize how teams identify, rate, prioritize, and track risks
Lead security risk assessments across Leo's systems, applications, vendors, and business processes, including non-traditional assets such as space and ground infrastructure, and covering areas such as data protection, insider threat, data sharing, identity and access management, and third-party and supply chain risk
Work with control owners to drive risks to remediation, mitigation, or formal acceptance by the right decision makers, prioritizing so limited engineering capacity goes to the issues that matter most and escalating clearly when risks are not being addressed
Define, track, and report security risk metrics and risk posture to leadership in a way that supports clear decisions
Contribute to strategic control requirements and roadmaps for business risk, insider threat, and third-party risk management
Serve as a subject matter expert on security risk for Leo business, product, and engineering teams, giving risk and policy guidance, training, and outreach to internal teams and external supply chain partners
Design and use automation and AI to streamline risk intake, assessment, reporting, and tracking
Bring structure to new and fast-changing areas with no established playbook, and make practical tradeoffs between short-term and long-term security and business goals
About the team
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