Cloud Security Incident Leader — Build & Scale Teams

Amazon.com, Inc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com, Inc. is seeking an experienced security leader to join the CloudOps team.

You will own building and managing a team of incident managers and technical leaders, driving engineering teams to act quickly to mitigate risks, and fostering a high-performing culture. You will lead recruitment, drive operational excellence in incident management, and partner across AWS to prioritize and remediate issues.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of managing and developing teams experience.
• 5+ years in software security or related operating environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Knowledge of security of web services, content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security.
• Experience in managing and developing teams.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of security engineers, focusing on recruitment, development, and retention of top security talent.
• Drive operational excellence in incident management processes, establishing and maintaining SLAs, metrics, and quality standards for security response activities.
• Partner with service teams and stakeholders across AWS to ensure security issues are properly prioritized and remediated according to risk levels and customer impact.
• Develop and implement strategic initiatives to improve security response capabilities, including automation, process improvements, and scaling mechanisms.
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and psychological safety while maintaining high security standards and operational excellence.
• Manage cross-organizational relationships and communication channels to ensure effective escalation paths and resolution of complex security challenges.
• Lead the development and implementation of security frameworks and controls that balance risk mitigation with business objectives and builder experience.
• Establish and maintain mechanisms for measuring team performance, operational metrics, and security program effectiveness.
• Guide architectural decisions and technical strategy for security solutions across multiple organizations and services.
• Mentor and develop future security leaders while creating growth opportunities for team members.

Skills

Team leadership

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or InfoSec

Job description

Amazon.com, Inc. is seeking an experienced security leader to join the CloudOps team.

You will own building and managing a team of incident managers and technical leaders, driving engineering teams to act quickly to mitigate risks, and fostering a high-performing culture. You will lead recruitment, drive operational excellence in incident management, and partner across AWS to prioritize and remediate issues.