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
Amazon’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access healthcare products, reinvent healthcare and deliver the future of medicine.
Towards this mission, Amazon is building technology, products, and services that help customers find, buy, and engage with the healthcare solutions they need. Because maintaining customer trust is the foundation of our business, we build healthcare services with industry leading security controls that protect our customers’ most sensitive data.
- 7+ years of experience planning, designing, developing, and delivering consumer software services
- 7+ years experience implementing security controls for software services
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- Strong and proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience and stakeholders
- Experience building software services and security controls in the healthcare industry
- 10+ years of engineering team management experience
- 5+ years of experience building large modular systems
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or equivalent
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $187,500/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.