Senior Security Engineering Manager AI Production Security

Amazon Web Services, Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Manager, Security Engineering for its AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) unit.

This role leads a team of security engineers delivering production-grade AI security across global customer engagements, shaping the security delivery model and ensuring AWS standards are met without slowing delivery. You will own the security outcomes across multiple programs, define staffing and escalation paths, and partner with AWS Security and delivery leadership to

Qualifications

• Lead and mentor a team of senior security engineers across multiple customer engagements.
• Define and optimize the security delivery model for FDE, embedding engineers with delivery pods.

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 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

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Manager, Security Engineering for its AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) unit.

This role leads a team of security engineers delivering production-grade AI security across global customer engagements, shaping the security delivery model and ensuring AWS standards are met without slowing delivery. You will own the security outcomes across multiple programs, define staffing and escalation paths, and partner with AWS Security and delivery leadership to