Manager, Security Automation, Security Operational

Minimum of five (5) years of experience in managing and building teams up to 8 people (including coaching and mentoring)
- Minimum of three (5) years experience with high volume workflow process and procedures
- Minimum of three (5) years knowledge of technical incident response methods and tools
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field or related experience
- Knowledge of internet security issues and threat landscape.

As a Manager in the Security Operational Research team, you will own the automation of emergent security mitigations. You will manage security engineers and program managers to develop innovative security prototypes at an unprecedented scale. Our services protect the Amazon Security cloud for all customers and preserves our customer’s trust in us. You will get to use the full power and breadth of Amazon Security technologies to build services that empower our incident response team, protecting every single Amazon Security customer from security threats.

We are seeking an innovative and thoughtful leader with an established background in delivering rapid prototypes. You have strong technical skills, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and motivation to achieve results for your customers. You are a leader who prioritizes systematically, communicates clearly and compellingly, and fosters a growth mentality and delivery excellence within your team.

As a security leader, you will (a) lead by example, innovate and solve security challenges at a massive scale, (b) orchestrate strategy and direction, roadmap planning, and operations, (c) hire, build and manage a cross-functional engineering team, and (d) foster strong team culture.

Building a High-Performing & Inclusive Team Culture

You should be passionate about attracting & developing a world-class team that welcomes, celebrates, and leverages a diverse set of backgrounds and skill-sets to deliver results. Driving results through others is your primary responsibility, and doing so in a way that builds on our inclusive culture is key to our long-term success.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. The team has a mix of experience levels, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers, data scientists, and managers truly enjoy mentoring junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring, thorough code reviews, and providing opportunities to lead new development.

We care about your career growth. We create opportunities for you to continuously develop into a more well-rounded leader and builder, enabling greater customer impact and influence over time.

Inclusive and Diverse Culture

Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes, we secure the world’s most comprehensive cloud, and we believe a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we cultivate every day.

We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers. We want someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building.

We understand that life is dynamic and we have a flexible work environment that enables individuals to adjust their work schedule to accommodate personal needs. Our team is distributed, though most of the team is located in Europe and Virginia. We generally keep core business hours of 9:30 - 4:30UTC, while allowing flexibility as needed. At Security, it’s not about clocking hours, it’s about delivering results.

On-Call Responsibility

This position involves on-call escalation responsibilities. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.

Key job responsibilities
- You independently manage a team of engineers. You are able to assess engineer performance and have experience managing both high and low performers. You are able to hire, develop, and promote engineers.
- You define the strategic vision for your team, partnering effectively with customers and stakeholders. You establish a roadmap and successfully deliver engineering solutions that execute that vision.
- You are able to independently make short-term vs. long-term decisions. You define clear goals and objectives. You make crisp decisions about what projects move forward and in what priority order.
- You delegate appropriately, assigning the right level of tasks based on the strength and development objectives of the individuals on your team.
- You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your manager, customers, and stakeholders with plans for mitiga