Sr. Security Operations Manager, Amazon Leo Security

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 296,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Leo Security is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, and Security Incident Response for Project Leo. You will own programs that keep Leo's systems resilient, lead a team of security engineers, set strategy for threat detection and response, and drive improvements with a hands-on leadership style.

This on-site role is based in Redmond, WA, and reports to security leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on security engineering experience.
• 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions.
• 10+ years of team management and building (coaching and mentoring).
• 10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Security Operations function, including 24x7 monitoring, detection engineering, triage, and threat hunting across ground and satellite control systems.
• Own the end-to-end Vulnerability Management (VM) program — asset discovery, scanning, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting against SLAs.
• Direct the Security Incident Response (SIR) program, including preparedness, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident COE reviews.
• Define and report operational metrics and Weekly Business Reviews (WBR) that give leadership clear visibility into risk and program health.
• Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) through automation, tooling, and continuous runbook improvement.
• Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team; set clear goals, career paths, and a strong culture of ownership.
• Partner with engineering, product, and compliance teams to embed security into the development lifecycle and meet critical-security (CRIT-SEC) readiness requirements.

Skills

Hands-on security engineering

Risk assessment

Team management

Communicating technical concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Description

Leo Security is the team that protects Project Leo, Amazon's low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband initiative, spanning ground infrastructure, customer systems, and the software that operates our constellation. We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, and Security Incident Response functions.

In this role you will own the programs that keep Leo's systems resilient against evolving threats. You will lead a team of security engineers and operations professionals, set the strategy for how we detect and respond to threats at scale, and drive measurable improvements to our security posture. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, dive deep into technical problems, and raise the bar for operational excellence across the organization. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable setting long-term strategy and leading the response to a high-severity event.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Security Operations function, including 24x7 monitoring, detection engineering, triage, and threat hunting across ground and satellite control systems.
• Own the end-to-end Vulnerability Management (VM) program — asset discovery, scanning, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting against service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Direct the Security Incident Response (SIR) program, including preparedness, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident Correction of Errors (COE) reviews.
• Define and report operational metrics and Weekly Business Reviews (WBR) that give leadership clear visibility into risk and program health.
• Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) through automation, tooling, and continuous runbook improvement.
• Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team; set clear goals, career paths, and a strong culture of ownership.
• Partner with engineering, product, and compliance teams to embed security into the development lifecycle and meet critical-security (CRIT-SEC) readiness requirements.

A day in the life

You start the day reviewing overnight detections and the vulnerability remediation queue with your operations leads, then join a WBR to walk senior leaders through risk trends and program metrics. Midday you dive deep with an incident responder on a high-severity investigation and unblock a remediation with a partner engineering team. In the afternoon you coach a manager on a hiring plan, review a detection-automation design, and set direction for the quarter's vulnerability-management priorities. This role is based on-site in Redmond, WA with the Leo Security team.

About the team

Leo Security protects Project Leo across all aspects of the business. From protecting customer data to satellite designs. We provide input on the design of ground stations, terminals, satellites, as well as the software that powers the network and customer management systems.

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, its 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

We are a fast-growing team operating at the intersection of large-scale cloud systems and space technology, and we take pride in raising the security bar for one of Amazon's most ambitious initiatives.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience
• 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience
• 10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring) experience
• 10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Experience with hands-on security engineering
• Experience in risk assessment and enabling organizations to make security decisions
• Experience in team management and building (including coaching and mentoring)

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of information security risk-based prioritization
• Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
• Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Redmond - 208,300.00 - 281,800.00 USD annually