Security Engineering Manager, AWS Security Corporate Response

Amazons Corporate Security Response (CorpSec) team is the front line defending one of the worlds largest and most complex corporate environments. We detect investigate and respond to security threats across Amazon from targeted campaigns to advanced persistent threats operating as part of a global follow-the-sun security response capability.

We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to serve as a Site Lead for our EMEA location. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will lead a team of security engineers while personally driving complex investigations shaping autonomous security tooling and raising the bar for operational excellence across the team. This is not a coordination role. You will investigate. You will build. You will lead from the front.


Key job responsibilities
Lead Security Incident Response Operations

- Own and drive complex security investigations end-to-end from triage through containment remediation and closure
- Lead cross-functional incident coordination with Legal Security and engineering leadership delivering clear risk assessments and recommended actions
- Maintain situational awareness of the global threat landscape and translate intelligence into actionable defensive measures

Shape Autonomous Security Investigation

- Define investigation user stories that codify expert security tradecraft into autonomous agent behavior
- Own the quality feedback loop: review agentic output validate scoring and drive precision/recall toward production targets
- Review guardrails and policies governing autonomous agent actions balancing automation velocity with safety

Build and Lead a High-Performing Team

- Recruit develop and retain security engineers who thrive in ambiguity form independent risk assessments and drive outcomes through direct action
- Provide technical mentorship across incident response threat analysis forensics and security automation

Drive Automation and Process Improvement

- Identify recurring patterns and systemic gaps then deliver detection rules and automation to close them
- Lead the transition from manual investigation to scalable agentic capabilities measuring throughput improvements

About the team
About Amazon Security:

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 Amazons 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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CorpSec Response operates 24/7 as a global follow-the-sun team protecting Amazons corporate infrastructure. We combine deep human expertise with leading autonomous investigation capabilities. Our engineers are hands-on investigators who also shape the AI systems that augment their work creating a unique feedback loop between human security expertise and machine-scale automation.

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security or a related field
- Knowledge of security of web services video content protection technologies cryptography network security protocols and operating system security
- Experience in managing and developing teams
- Experience in progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent

- information security professional certification (SANS GIAC CISSP etc.)
- Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review threat modeling risk analysis and software testing techniques
- Experience managing remote team members

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