Senior Security Engineering Project Manager, Apple Services Engineering (Ase)

As a Security Engineering Program Manager in ASE, you work with engineers, system reliability engineers, marketing, legal, and leadership to launch and operate features that surprise and delight our end-users and developers. This is not a task-based job; we are accountable for delivering secure and performant systems. Partnering with program and engineering leaders and teams, you will influence and drive every aspect of software and hardware development and deployment including definition, design, integration, build, qualification, and release processes; identify release blockers and manage the implementation and deployment of remediations to development, QA, and production environments both on prem and in public cloud infrastructure globally. YOU WILL: ~Plan: Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status. Manage risks and mitigations, and re-plan as events warrant. Drive alignment across the organization and between teams. Manage dependencies and prioritization discussions to ensure the correct tradeoffs between security, performance, and usability. ~Execute: Drive on time delivery and deployment, identifying development and feasibility needs, establishing achievements for checkpoints and status updates. Demand excellence in the services and infrastructure that drives Apple and ensure compliance with internal and external security and privacy guarantees and requirements for a company that holds some of the world’s most sensitive and personal data. ~Problem solve: Proactively identify issues and solutions, marshal resources necessary to address and resolve. Coordinate with teams to identify, prioritize, and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies. Rely on your Security Engineering and program management background to have strong opinions - and then defend and debate them within the program management and engineering organizations that you work. Working to ensure that we uphold our high standards for security and privacy. ~Facilitate: Lead discussions and break down complex issues into discussion topics to drive engineering and security alignment with support from the security and leadership team while maintaining an orientation toward teamwork and collaboration. ~Communicate: Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and critical issues as needed to partners, including the executive team. Create and deliver clear and crisp presentations and other documentation to highlight risks and the work being done to mitigate or remediate them. ~Coordinate: Partner with SRE, Engineering, Finance, and Legal teams as well as external auditors and regulators where and when required on remediation of security and privacy issues as well the development and deployment of tooling and services to help facilitate security and private services. ~Improve: Identify areas across our software and infrastructure orgs where we can improve our security and privacy posture, create proposals to address those areas, and then use the skills detailed above to execute on those proposals and make meaningful improvements to Apple. * Partner with engineering and other cross-functional to identify new and existing security risks and then define and execute solutions to those risks. * Understand the required work and be able to break down ambitious and ambiguous goals into tangible steps * Responsible for communicating overall program status in a mature program management structure on a regular basis * Prioritize and balance competing organizational needs * Evaluate, question and improve or replace current processes to meet security, privacy, and compliance goals and requirements