Lead Security Engineering for Production AI Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 208,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) seeks a Sr. Manager, Security Engineering to build and lead the FDE security team that protects production AI systems deployed in customer environments worldwide.

You will own the security delivery model, staffing, and escalation paths, ensuring security outcomes across multiple engagements without slowing delivery velocity. You will guide a team of senior and principal security engineers, stay hands-on enough to make critical security decisions, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of 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.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years hands on building AI/agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and lead a team of security engineers embedded across FDE customer engagements; own performance management, career development, and retention for a high-performing, geographically distributed security team
• Define and operate the FDE security delivery model: how security engineers staff to pods, scope engagements, conduct reviews, and hand off to customers; create the mechanisms that ensure consistent security outcomes at scale
• Own security delivery across multiple concurrent customer programs; prioritize security resources against the FDE engagement portfolio, resolve cross-engagement conflicts, and drive closure on security blockers impeding production deployments
• Partner with FDE delivery leadership, AWS Security, and service teams to align security strategy with FDE's business objectives; represent security in FDE leadership forums and influence technical direction across organizational boundaries
• Make high-judgment security risk decisions for FDE's most complex customer environments; serve as the escalation point for security architectural trade-offs that require balancing customer requirements, delivery timelines, and AWS standards
• Engage directly with customer security leadership (CISOs, security VPs) to establish trust, align on security expectations, and resolve escalations that threaten customer relationships or production timelines
• Drive the FDE security roadmap: identify capability gaps, prioritize investments in tooling, automation, and reusable security patterns, and ensure the team builds assets that scale the practice beyond individual engagements
• Requires up to 25% travel

Skills

Security engineering

Risk assessment

Team management

Leadership

AI/agentic systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) seeks a Sr. Manager, Security Engineering to build and lead the FDE security team that protects production AI systems deployed in customer environments worldwide.

You will own the security delivery model, staffing, and escalation paths, ensuring security outcomes across multiple engagements without slowing delivery velocity. You will guide a team of senior and principal security engineers, stay hands-on enough to make critical security decisions, and