Security & Compliance Engineering Leader

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Houston (TX); On-site; USD 175,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security & Compliance Engineering Manager to lead a team of security and compliance engineers, owning the roadmap, hiring top talent, and driving long-term strategy for security automation across regulated customers.

You will manage cross-location teams, define metrics, and partner with senior leadership to align goals with customer outcomes, ensuring scalable security and compliant cloud solutions in a rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of managing and developing teams.
• 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Knowledge of security of web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security.
• Experience in managing and developing teams.
• Experience in progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment.
• Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
• Experience in one or more of the following: application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, security infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls.
• Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders, C-level executives and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage a team where the strategy is not fully defined; track record of defining metrics, setting goals, and delivering 1–3 year initiatives.
• Track record of running emerging-tech POCs and end-to-end solution development to clear outcomes with enterprise customers, across multiple teams and partners.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of security and compliance engineers in multiple locations and one or two managers under you.
• Hire and develop bar-raising talent, run customized onboarding, and grow engineers through delegation, development planning, coaching, and stretch assignments, and promotions
• Provide both tactical and strategic management where the problem, opportunity, and strategy may not be fully defined.
• Establish team structure, inspection mechanisms, KPIs and SLAs that let the team deliver complex problems independently, and measure team progress, customer experience, and operational excellence.
• Define team and cross-team goals, and contribute to the organization’s strategic goal planning and execution
• Own regular reporting to key stakeholders; Write clear narratives and reports for senior leadership up to three levels above.
• Negotiate priorities across teams and partner orgs. Influence partner-team roadmaps and resourcing, drive resolution of escalations
• Set the direction and technical bar for the security and compliance emerging-tech proofs of concept, solutions and products
• Identify and shape sales opportunities; provide input to AWS service-team roadmaps and SAS offering strategy.
• Travel to customer sites as needed.

Skills

People management

Software security

Security frameworks

Threat modeling

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Roadmap ownership

Security and compliance

AI security

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/InfoSec

Tools

CI/CD tooling

cfn-guard

OPA Rego

Cedar

Job description

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC is seeking a Senior Security & Compliance Engineering Manager to lead a team of security and compliance engineers, owning the roadmap, hiring top talent, and driving long-term strategy for security automation across regulated customers.

You will manage cross-location teams, define metrics, and partner with senior leadership to align goals with customer outcomes, ensuring scalable security and compliant cloud solutions in a rapidly evolving AI landscape.