Security Engineering Manager – Incident Response, AWS CloudOps

Overview

In this role you will lead a high-performing CloudOps security team responsible for incident management at scale. You partner with AWS service teams to prioritize and remediate security issues, drive automation and process improvements, and sustain a culture of ownership and learning. You shape security strategy while balancing risk with business objectives, delivering high-quality security outcomes in a hyper-growth environment. This is a mission-critical role that influences how security enables growth and trust.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work hours
• career growth and training
• inclusive team culture
• equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of security engineers focusing on recruitment, development, and retention
• Drive operational excellence in incident management: SLAs, metrics, quality standards
• Partner with service teams and stakeholders across AWS to prioritize and remediate issues by risk and impact
• Develop and implement initiatives to improve security response capabilities (automation, processes, scaling)
• Foster ownership, continuous learning, and psychological safety while upholding security standards
• Manage cross-organizational relationships and escalation paths for complex security challenges
• Lead development and implementation of security frameworks and controls balanced with business goals
• Establish mechanisms to measure team performance, operational metrics, and program effectiveness
• Guide architectural decisions and technical strategy for security across multiple orgs/services
• Mentor and develop future security leaders and growth opportunities for team members

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
• Knowledge of web service security, cryptography, network security protocols and OS security
• Experience in managing and developing teams
• Experience in software security environments and progressive work
• Experience applying threat modeling or risk identification techniques or equivalent

• prioritization and communication
• leadership and people development
• clear and compelling communication
• security engineering
• incident management
• threat modeling and risk analysis

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