Director of Security Engineering, AWS Identity

We are looking for a Director of Security Engineering to lead the AWS Identity Security Engineering organization.

The days of corporate firewalls being the most prominent component of a strong information security defense are long gone. Industry trends including mobile, IoT, SaaS applications, and cloud computing are driving the need for new zero trust architectures that put digital identity as the cornerstone of modern digital security. New privacy regulations such as GDPR are driving customers to rethink their legacy identity and access management systems and look for more modern cloud-based solutions.

Key job responsibilities
This role will be responsible for leading a team of seasoned security engineers and security engineering managers who work across the full range of products and services within AWS Identity. This includes services such as AWS IAM, IAM Identity Center, AWS Organizations, Amazon Cognito, AWS Directory Services and AWS Resource Access Manager. In this role, you will partner deeply with senior engineering and product leaders to define and drive ever-improving security best practices, design and evolve system architectures that have security at their core, and iterate on security-oriented products


About the team
AWS Identity provides services that enable customers to control who can access what in the cloud. Our services enable identity, resource, and access management as well as governance across all of our customers' AWS accounts and resources. We support all AWS services in all AWS regions around the world, and 100% of AWS customers use our services. We take our responsibility for securely enforcing access control for AWS customers as our absolute top priority.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience, 7+ of which must be in security engineering management roles
• 7+ years of experience managing managers & leaders within development teams
• Detailed technical knowledge of application security, cloud security and penetration testing
• Technical ability to dive deep into software and systems architecture

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of interacting regularly and directly with senior executives
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Strong systems operations skills
• Experience leading teams that participate in, and influence, open standards work (e.g. OpenID Connect, SAML, FIDO Alliance, etc.)
• Ability to thrive in a startup-like environment


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