Sr Mgr, Security Engineering, AWS Security

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. We are looking for a passionate, innovative, results oriented senior manager of security engineering with experience working in a diverse team. AWS Security is responsible for creative and innovative solutions that raise the bar for how AWS employees interact with resources, systems, and data. At AWS' scale, we invent new security tools to enable system administrators and developers to build rapidly, while maintaining least privileged access.
AWS is looking for a Senior Manager of Security Engineering to focus on development, operations and expansion of vulnerability management scanning and analysis capabilities. This role will lead a team to define and implement steps to achieve our long term security vision for customer trust, solving our most challenging problems with novel and scalable solutions. In this senior manager role, you will work with cross-functional teams of technical and non-technical key stakeholders to define strategy and interpret, communicate, and drive full lifecycle security projects. You will partner with Legal, Product teams, and Engineering teams to evaluate and develop security services and infrastructure. If you enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the strategic direction of a large global organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

As a Sr Mgr, Security Engineering you will:

• Establish and execute short and long-term roadmaps for the business
• Lead and grow a set of teams to deliver customer impacting features
• Build scalable and efficient software to manage related products
• Work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges imposed by the delivery platform to enable delightful experiences for customers.
• Effectively present work to all levels of the leadership.
• Be an effective collaborator in a cross functional team of Managers, Engineers, Security Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and Product Managers.
• Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping an extremely high bar customer trust, performance, and availability.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, Engineering, Math, Statistics or related discipline, or 15+ years’ equivalent technology experience
• 10 + years of experience in software and cloud technology

Preferred qualifications

• Have a clear understanding of cloud computing services/deployment architecture
• Demonstrate innovative security approaches in non-traditional IT environments
• Have experience generating automated metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Have experience in the development of security products
• Demonstrable teamwork skills and resourcefulness
• Possess self-drive to keep moving things forward even in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge (avoid “analysis paralysis”)
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills
• Experience defining cyber-secure architectures, design and development of asynchronous messaging platforms
• Knowledge of networking protocols and their implementations
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures and distributed algorithms
• Deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability
• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Security.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering team management experience

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $324,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.