Security Engineering Manager – Incident Response, AWS CloudOps

Overview

As Security Manager in the CloudOps context, you lead and grow a high-performing incident management team focused on security responsiveness at scale. You partner with AWS service teams to prioritize and remediate risks while driving automation and process improvements. You own strategic initiatives to raise security response capabilities and foster a culture of ownership, learning, and excellence. This role combines leadership, architecture guidance, and hands-on incident stewardship to protect complex cloud environments.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work hours
• career growth and training resources
• diverse and inclusive team culture
• DEI events and learning experiences
• opportunities to work across cloud, devices, and services
• Earth’s Best Employer aspirational culture

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing security engineering team with focus on recruitment, development, and retention
• Drive operational excellence for incident management, establishing SLAs, metrics, and quality standards
• Partner with AWS service teams to prioritize security issues by risk and customer impact
• Develop and implement strategic initiatives to improve response capabilities, including automation and 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 aligned with business goals
• Establish mechanisms to measure team performance and program effectiveness
• Guide architectural decisions and technical strategy for security solutions across services
• Mentor future security leaders and create growth opportunities for team members

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
• Knowledge of security of web services, cryptography, network security, and OS security
• Experience in managing and developing teams
• Experience in software security environments
• Experience applying threat modeling or risk identification techniques
• Experience in communicating results to senior leadership and escalating as needed
• Experience triaging security risks and ensuring remediation or mitigation
• Experience generating automated metrics for service and program effectiveness

• leadership
• clear communication
• ownership
• security incident management
• threat modeling and risk analysis
• security frameworks and controls

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