Cloud Security Incident Response Lead

Amazon Inc.; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Amazon Security is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing incident response team within AWS CloudOps. The role focuses on building talent, delivering rapid, secure responses, and driving strategic improvements across a large-scale cloud environment.

You will mentor engineers, set SLAs and metrics, and partner with service teams to balance risk with customer impact, ensuring robust security outcomes at scale.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in managing and developing teams.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
• Knowledge of security of web services, cryptography, and network security protocols.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Team leadership

Threat modeling

Security concepts

Web security knowledge

Software security experience

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Jobbeschreibung

Amazon Security is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing incident response team within AWS CloudOps. The role focuses on building talent, delivering rapid, secure responses, and driving strategic improvements across a large-scale cloud environment.

You will mentor engineers, set SLAs and metrics, and partner with service teams to balance risk with customer impact, ensuring robust security outcomes at scale.