Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. The Kuiper Security team partners with builder teams to ensure our systems are secure by default and delightful for customers.

As the head of Cryptography and PKI Services for Kuiper Security, you’ll be responsible for leading and growing a team that develops crypto services and PKI solutions to protect Project Kuiper technology and infrastructure across customer terminals, ground systems, cloud services and satellites. The variety of systems and scale of an advanced satellite broadband telecom service require our security team to continually Invent and Simplify and Dive Deep. Our customers expect Project Kuiper to provide service that protects their information at the highest standard, and we need a Customer-Obsessed leader who can Think Big and enable all of our teams to deliver. This team plays a significant role in the delivery of the overall Kuiper program, and is an invigorating challenge for a leader with deep curiosity and operational skill.

Key job responsibilities
- Provide technical and strategic leadership to the Kuiper Cryptography and PKI engineering organization to deploy robust certificate and key management, crypto libraries, HSM infrastructure and PKI solutions at global scale
- Set the vision and roadmap for Kuiper Cryptography and PKI engineering
- Develop secure-by-default crypto services and libraries that accelerate and lower the cost of adoption of secure cryptography solutions across Kuiper
- Collaborate with various security and product engineering teams providing expertise in the design and implementation of cryptographic solutions
- Partner with product engineering teams to drive implementation of security measures to reduce risks for the business
- Build a strong security engineering organization to deliver significant impact to the company

About the team
About 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.

Diverse Experiences
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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.

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