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Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 1 day ago

Senior Manager, Security Engineering, AWS Global ProServe Security , Global Professional Services Security

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$208K/yr - $282K/yr

10+ years exp

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Sr. Manager, Security Engineering to lead their Engagement Security team. This role involves building and managing a global team of security professionals to ensure safe and compliant handling of customer data and systems while driving security initiatives and collaborating with various stakeholders.

Agentic AIConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Driving security initiative planning, outcomes and improvements: Participate in wider leadership across AWS Security functions. Establish roadmap/strategic direction for our business generally and the team specifically

Recruiting, team management and growth: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing security team with the right mix of skills. Assess performance and manage both high and low performers

Processional development of team members: Define team goals, provide coaching, and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration. Hire, develop, and promote technical and non-technical team members

Security guidance documentation, training and reviews: Assess security risks, establish mitigation strategies, and develop technical roadmaps. Partner with field teams to understand requirements and integrate security seamlessly into their work with AWS customers

Security Escalations: Independently make short-term vs. long-term risk decisions, escalating as required. Act as a point of escalation for high-judgement decisions on information security risk, incorporating advice from teams like AWS Legal, AWS Security, and executive leadership as required

Metrics, projections and inspections: Implement success metrics, reporting, and processes that measure program outcomes and effectiveness

Collaborating with legal and compliance authorities within AWS to understand the impacts of laws and regulations

Security tooling such as telemetry (logging, alerting, monitoring), drift detection, anomaly detection

Inform best practices in information security around access control, authentication, identity management and incident response

Owning and driving large-scale programs and campaigns for awareness of policy or adoption of new mechanisms

Using automation to scale our mechanisms across the business and minimize friction around security controls

Owning security escalation action items and informing Senior Leadership on short/medium and long-term recommendations to triage escalations and mitigate risks

Conversing with builder teams about security, risk, and regulatory requirements

Diving deep into the control landscape and operations AWS services and features with our builder teams

Collaborating with our Assurance, Legal, and partner Security teams

Bar raising our deliverables and mentoring more junior team members and builders

Qualification

Security EngineeringRisk AssessmentCloud ComputingTeam ManagementInformation Security TechnologiesThreat ModelingCommunication SkillsCoachingMentoringTechnical DocumentationCollaboration

Required

10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience

10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience

10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring) experience

10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen

Preferred

Knowledge of information security risk-based prioritization

Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques

Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent

Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services

Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Knowledge of cloud computing services or deployment architecture

Benefits

Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.

Founded in 2002

Seattle, Washington, USA

10001+ employees