Description

We are looking for a Sr. Security Engineering Manager to lead a team of security engineers, developers, and technical program managers. Successful candidates for this position must have experience growing and coaching a highly qualified team of software and security engineers. You must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. You will invent mechanisms that scale to meet broad and diverse needs of Amazon customers and business teams.

You will have strong customer obsession, working to deeply understand the needs of your customers and relentlessly looking to improve their experience and make them more productive. The ideal candidate has strong technical knowledge in secure software development, experience designing and implementing security controls for multiple consumer product launches, high judgment to prioritize and address security risks, and experience holding high standards for security controls and work products.

We are looking for someone who takes pride in meaningful work that will improve healthcare outcomes for customers.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the security architecture for products that will enforce and enable secure development of Amazon’s healthcare services and continue to protect customer data.
- Partner with engineering leaders in Amazon Health Services to reduce the friction for builders to develop services that are secure by design.
- Work closely with your customers, partner teams, and foundational engineering teams to ensure the needs of your customers are clearly understood and effectively addressed.
- Drive adoption and integration of Amazon's paved path security solutions across subsidiaries.
- Recruit, coach, develop, and scale a team of world class security engineers, providing strategic and tactical oversight to maintain a motivated, innovative, and effective team.

A day in the life
This position within the Healthcare Security team represents a rare opportunity to get in with a fast-growing business. You will lead teams to design secure architecture and build layers of security controls to protect customer information and our infrastructure.

A successful candidate will bring deep technical security and software expertise, strong business acumen, and judgment. You will use your ability to define ground breaking products, hire and lead teams, and demonstrate an ability to work within a fast-moving environment to rapidly deliver services that have broad business impact. In this role, you will lead your team to partner with the engineering teams to deliver software services that are designed for security from the outset and launched with a high security bar. You will continue to raise the security bar of services in production and ensure that there are mechanisms and metrics to improve security.

You will define the right long-term security architecture partnering with our engineering leaders, and deliver innovative ideas to improve security across both internal and third-party services that we use to deliver the customer experience. You will need to be an exceptional organizational leader, who can hire, grow and retain a diverse and talented team of cybersecurity professionals to deliver this mission.

About the team
About Amazon Security

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.