AI-First Security Engineering Leader in Healthcare

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Healthcare Security (HealthSec) seeks a Senior Manager to lead a security engineering team responsible for protecting PHI, devices, and systems. You will own strategy, execution, and the health of your team while applying AI-first approaches to scale threat detection and secure large-scale healthcare platforms.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on security practice, guiding architecture reviews, threat modeling, incident response, and audits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in application security, security engineering, or a related security discipline.
• 3+ years of people management experience, including hiring and developing engineers.
• Knowledge of HTTP(S), DNS, TCP/IP and programming in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
• Experience leading security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security design for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in application security architecture, code reviews, security testing, incident response, or security infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security engineers, owning hiring, performance management, career development, and succession planning.
• Set the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for the team, balancing security outcomes with business priorities and the organization's risk posture.
• Guide the team on security architecture reviews, threat modeling, secure design, and incident response for large-scale distributed systems handling PHI.
• Champion an AI First approach, driving the team to apply generative AI, ML, and automation to scale threat detection and security reviews.
• Ensure the team's work meets healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA), and support audits.
• Drive risk-based decision-making founded on data and facts, and deliver results under uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Partner with software development, product, clinical, and compliance teams to embed security decisions early and often.
• Champion a culture of security, customer trust, ownership, and continuous learning across the organization.
• Influence security strategy and direction across multiple teams or organizations.

Skills

Security leadership

People management

Threat modeling

Security architecture reviews

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Amazon Healthcare Security (HealthSec) seeks a Senior Manager to lead a security engineering team responsible for protecting PHI, devices, and systems. You will own strategy, execution, and the health of your team while applying AI-first approaches to scale threat detection and secure large-scale healthcare platforms.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on security practice, guiding architecture reviews, threat modeling, incident response, and audits.