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

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AWS Global ProServe Security is looking for a Sr. Manager Security Engineering to lead our Engagement Security team. Customers ask AWS to help deliver migrate and innovate on their most important workloads and that can mean helping with workloads that process regulated data or working in the customers production environment.

The Engagement Security team manages automation processes and policies that maintain AWSs security bar in every high-risk customer interaction.

As a Security Leader you will own building and managing a global team of security professionals while fostering a strong team culture. You should know how to prioritize communicate clearly and compellingly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong team. You will set the security strategy and priorities for the Engagement Security team. You will lead a distributed team of cross-functional security professionals (such as security engineers technical project managers and program managers) who ensure that when customers ask AWS to work on their data and systems we keep the customer safe we obey relevant regulations and policies and we meet AWSs high expectations for secure delivery.

You will also advise executive leadership by recommending information security investments which mitigate risks strengthen defenses and reduce vulnerabilities for business activities and operations. You will collaborate with customer-facing business stakeholders legal human resources compliance and privacy specialists in addition to AWS Security to define information security requirements specify risk mitigation workflows and engage the appropriate stakeholders to maintain operational and reputational integrity.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen


Key job 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



A day in the life
As Sr. Manager Security Engineering you will often find yourself:
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.


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- 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
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field

- 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
- Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Knowledge of cloud computing services or deployment architecture

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Dallas - 208300.00 - 281800.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 208300.00 - 281800.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 208300.00 - 281800.00 USD annually