Software Development Manager, AWS SOC Engineering

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Toronto seeks a Software Development Manager to lead AWS SOC Engineering. You will drive security automation, design scalable solutions, and manage a skilled team. This role requires expertise in security architecture and development practices. Join us to enhance our security operations and trust with innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting systems.
• 8+ years leading the development of web services.

Responsibilities

• Lead your team in developing security automation tools.
• Shape technical roadmaps for security initiatives.
• Manage cross-functional engineering teams.
• Streamline security operations.

Skills

Engineering team management

Security architecture

Automation frameworks

Software development practices

Job description

Software Development Manager, AWS SOC Engineering

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) leading our AWS SOC Engineering team, you'll drive the development of advanced security automation and security tooling that fortify our security operations capabilities. You'll manage a team of developers to build scalable solutions that power our SOC, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence operations.

You'll shape the technical roadmap for security tooling initiatives, collaborate with various security teams to understand operational needs, and translate these into efficient, scalable solutions. Your work will directly impact our organization's security posture by enabling automated response, and improved visibility across our infrastructure.

This role requires expertise in security architecture, automation frameworks, and modern development practices. You'll lead the charge in revolutionizing our security operations through cutting-edge tooling and automation solutions.

Key job responsibilities
(a) Lead by example, innovate and solve security challenges at a massive scale,
(b) set measurable goals for delivery by your team,
(c) Orchestrate strategy and direction, roadmap planning, and project execution scheduling,
(d) Hire, build and manage a cross-functional engineering team, and
(e) Create the team environment that your reports rely upon for delivery
(f) Streamlining security operations through innovative tooling

About the team
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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience with common attack scenarios within cloud computing environments and has used a security framework, such as MITRE ATT&CK, to define and analyze security incidents.

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